Shikhar Jain

Shikhar Jain has over 20 years of experience working with variety of industries, where he has designed, implemented and integrated Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety and Social programs/management systems in over 100 individual facilities and for corporate-wide operations. Shikhar has developed and implemented best practices for several top Indian firms, including in areas of improved operational efficiency, good EHS practices and enhanced compliance management.

Seema Arora

Seema Arora pioneered the creation of services on Environment and Sustainable Development within CII. Her journey with CII began with engaging Indian Industry towards the run up to the Earth Summit in 1992. Seema Arora works on designing innovative products and frameworks to build the business case for industry to invest in sustainability. She has created several initiatives including the world’s first Corporate Sustainability Label from CESD. As the head of CESD she networks with industry, government and community-based organisations to develop policy instruments and innovative voluntary approaches to sustainable development. She is also providing inputs to defining sustainable development action plans for state governments. Ms Arora provides training and counseling to industry for evolving a sustainability vision and a portfolio of sustainability strategies. Her main areas of interest include environmental policy, management systems, corporate sustainability, institutional strengthening and capacity building. Seema Arora is a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability, external review panel for Sustainability Reporting for several global companies, and Polaris Committee of FBN (Family Business Network) International. She is a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Delhi University.

Sanaiya Batliwalla

Sanaiya has completed her M.Sc in Environment Management for Business from Sheffield Hallam University

Priyanka Yadav

Priyanka is a gold medalist in M.Sc. Natural Resource Management (NRM). She did her post-graduation in NRM from University School of Environment Management, GGSIPU, New Delhi. Prior to joining CII, she interned with WWF-India and CII, while pursuing her academics. At CESD, she works on environment policy and advocacy, with an objective to imbibe the concept of sustainability into mainstream business planning. Her key responsibilities include providing support in specialized projects like GHG inventorization of entire IPPU sector for the purpose of preparation of BUR-2, CII-NITI Aayog: Cleaner Air Better Life Project. She also manages CII-EnCASe: Environmental Compliance & Advisory Services. She also engages with the members of CII-National Committee on Environment (NCE), for seeking their inputs on various environmental issues to further undertake policy dialogue with all concerned stakeholders.

Lakshmi Iyengar

Lakshmi has completed her B.Com(Hons) from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. Has also taken some courses in computer programming at NIIT. Joined CII, Central office and worked there, for a little under 5 years Was a part of the Michael Porter Project which entailed assessing the competitiveness of Indian Industry in particular industry sectors. Also was actively involved with all the major events – trade fairs, conferences, WEF, auto expo etc. Was given independent charge of the in-house magazine, Grapevine. She worked in the Development Sector, at the NGO, Sanjivini Society for Mental Health, as a trained counsellor for ten years. The work there entailed counselling clients with a multitude of emotional problems, conducting community outreach programs for schools and corporates as well as in house workshops. Organising panel discussions/fundraisers and working on their publication and website was a part of her job profile. Lakshmi works in the Communications team and has been with CESD for over four years.

Neeraj Kumar

Nandini Kumar

Nandini has a doctorate in atmospheric chemistry and a master's degree in environmental chemistry. She has taught several subjects related to environmental science and sustainability/global change in an interdisciplinary context at the Master's level at TERI University

Kavita Kathait

Kavita is a development sector professional with working experience at CAPART (MoRD)

Pravir Deshmukh

Pravir has a master degree in Botany and pursuing Ph. D. degree from Amravati University.

Jayashree Singha

Jayashree has been working in the development sector for the past 12 years. She has handled various sustainable projects in different parts of the country in health and education. She also has a wide experience working with international organizations.

Gajendra Singh

Gajendra is an account professional with a Bachelor’s degree and experience of 6 years in domestic and MNC companies. He has worked with Genpact India and Mercer India in the past. Currently, he is taking care of finance and accounts activities in CESD and also supports administration.

Banajyotsna Baruah

Banajyotsna has done her post-graduation in Environmental Science from Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education & Research and graduation in Microbiology from Pune University. She previously worked with Hazards Centre and has 7 years of work experience in research and analysis

Asha Joseph

A marketing professional with almost 23 years of experience, Asha leads the Central Marketing Team for the Executive Education programmes for capacity building at CESD and is also a part of CII-ITC Sustainability Awards, which is a part of CESD’s continued effort to create awareness on sustainability practices and to create capabilities in business, where her responsibilities include promoting Sustainability Awards and Assessor Training, analysis of the applications, and preparation of feedback reports, support at the Awards Ceremony etc. Prior to joining CESD, she worked with Oxford University Press for 19 years where she was responsible for Event Management, Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, among others. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.

V. Vijayasudha

Vijayasudha holds a B.SC in Chemistry from Madras University. She has been with CII for the last 21 years. Before joining the Centre in April 2011 to take on the administrative responsibilities and holding charge of the HoDs office.

Syamala Lingala

Syamala has a Masters degree in Genetics and a PG Diploma in Genetic Counselling. She has five years of experience in Genetics

Swati Pandey

Swati is facilitating companies in India to integrate sustainability into their business functioning. At CESD she is managing and continuously developing recognition product

Surabhi Pathak

Surabhi Pathak is an MBA in Oil and Gas Management from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow. She has provided services as a Consultant in the area of Oil and Gas Pipelines. She also has worked as an Assistant Marketing Manager for India Oil and Gas Review Summit and International Exhibition (IORS) and on the Oil and Gas Journal of Oil Asia Publications Pvt. Ltd. At CESD she is working on Energy and Sustainability Consulting, Training and Capacity Building, Report Writing and Presentation, Project of Energy Management Systems ISO 50001:2011 at DMRC New Delhi, developing NATCOM GHG emission inventory for IPPU sector for MoEFCC.

Shipra Jain

Shipra is an experienced professional contributing to global sustainability framework by helping businesses adopt sustainable practices. In the last 7 years, she has conceptualized, developed and successfully implemented projects and products that have benefited businesses. At CESD, Shipra handholds industry clients for disclosing intangibles in the form of Sustainability report; assists companies for developing internal systems and processes and; trains professionals on Sustainability reporting framework.

Shreya Jaisani

Shreya is a BBA LLB graduate from Nirma University, with good working experience at different NGOs, high court, supreme court and law firms. After graduation, she volunteered at Sadhana Village, working for intellectually disabled adults. Post which she joined UNHCR, where she assisted in the status determination of mandate refugees and finding them durable solutions. At CII, as a part of the Sustainability Awards team, she aspires to bring more and more companies under the umbrella of sustainable growth and making them socially responsible.

Shreya Dutta

Shreya Dutta received a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration at Amity University

Shourjomay Chattopadhyay

Shourjomay holds a Master's degree in Environmental Studies and Resource Management from the TERI University and a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Honors) from the University of Delhi. Prior to joining CESD, he worked on multiple projects utilizing and developing his skills on various aspects of climate change, agriculture and water. He was part of the team that developed India's first bottom-up HFC emissions model. He also worked on the development of a GHG inventory and Climate MRV system for the state of Sikkim and drafting of the Mizoram State Water Policy. At CESD, he is involved in issues related to a circular economy and resource efficiency. He is working on the development of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) models to identify the scope of circularity within value chains at an economy, sector and entity level.

Abhinav Singh

Abhinav Singh has over 10 years of experience in the renewable energy sector that encompasses regulatory affairs, commercial and business development. He holds expertise in pre-project development and project governance. He was also the team leader of the Standard and Labelling programme of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India. He is MBA in Power Management from University of Petroleum & Management Studies, Dehradun and B.Tech in mechanical engineering from Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida that is affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University. At CESD, he is involved in consultancy in the areas of Energy Efficiency, Integrated Management Systems and Energy Management Systems.

Mohit Sharma

Mohit is a multidisciplinary professional who has worked extensively on energy and climate-related issues with the goal of balancing economic growth with rising environmental concerns. Mohit received his masters from National Sustainable Energy Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011. Before joining CESD, Mohit worked with Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) including brief stints at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). At CEEW, Mohit used global economic and climate models to determine India’s greenhouse gas trajectories in domestic, transportation and industrial sectors and develop abatement curves to inform decision-makers at the Montreal Protocol in the run-up to successful amendment for phasedown of HFCs. Additionally, Mohit has worked in the allied areas of energy efficiency, national energy systems optimisation and waste/resource management. Mohit has published research with international journals including Climate policy and Climatic Change. Mohit worked briefly as a project manager in the manufacturing sector after having a degree in Chemical Engineer from National Institute of Technology in 2006. Mohit's current focus at CESD is clean air and more specifically, development of an integrated airshed management approach and clean industry charter. Most recently, he assisted four task forces under CII-NITI Aayog initiative to prepare four source-specific action plans based on the latest scientific evidence and multi-stakeholder consultations involving the Government, civil society and industry.

Pawan Kumar

Pawan is working with CESD Since last five years in Administration, looking after all office administration activities and supporting Events Organizing Team of CESD. He is having 8+ years of work experience in the same field. Pawan has completed his Bachelor of Arts from Himachal Pradesh University. He prefers to play Cricket and Badminton in his leisure time.

Sonia Dhamija

Working with a PR Firm, Sonia Dhamija has an experience of more than 3 years of managing events, workshops, training, liaison with resource persons, media, network partners. She completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from YMCA. In CII she has joined us as a part of the Events team.

Aarti Maurya

Aarti has completed her Bachelor of Commerce and Education from Delhi University. She has over 6 years of work experience in Organizing events, meetings, seminars, inward and outward delegations with member companies, partners, and Embassies. She was associated with CII with the International Department. At CESD, Aarti works for Centralised Marketing Team (CMT) which promotes training and helping in Sustainability Awards.