I have worked in senior management position in certification bodies and industries over 35 years. I am mechanical engineer with MBA – Operations Management, ZED Master Trainer by QCI, certified lead auditor & Lead Tutor of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 Energy Management, ISMS ISO 27001, Lean Champion, ASQ Senior Member and Six Sigma Black Belt. I have done facilitation and audits in more than 15 countries includes USA, Russia, Australia, South Africa, and UAE.

Master’s graduate in Energy & Environment Engg., with work experience of 10 years covering advisory and project management. During this tenure, have demonstrated both management and execution capability, and have handled broad range of climate change, sustainability, carbon management and social responsibility projects across multiple industry sectors. Proven analytical and management skills with thorough understanding of the global trends and best practices.

B.Tech. graduate from I.I.T. Kanpur, Sanjay has total of 33 years of experience. Out of which 21 years have been in direct manufacturing and project roles and 12 years in workplace safety consulting roles. Sanjay has worked with most of the major business houses in India and in varied industries ranging from mining & petrochemicals to malls & golf clubs

Mangala has implemented a number of sustainable development and social performance programs in Oil & Gas Textiles and Pharmaceutical industry. For the past two and a half years, she has been working as an independent consultant conceptualization monitoring and evaluating the Government of India’s sustainable development evaluation documentation and stakeholder management.

To Lead Energy Conservation Management for PAN India business Sustainability, open access, power trading renewable energy projects implementation management Implementation of ISO 45001:2018 OHS;

Implementation, review monitoring of ISO 50001:2011 Energy Management System Standard;

Green building initiatives LEED Project review Action plan for implementation as well as to lead environment safety initiatives.

Mr. Rathore has vast experience of independently preparing the IMS manuals Procedures of the organization as per the requirement of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, OHSAS 18001 SA 8000.

He is a Production Industrial engineer (B.E) having master Diploma in Business Administration (MDBA) with specialization in Production Materials Management, a Certified Lead Auditor of ISO 9001, ISO 50001 SA 8000 and also an internal auditor of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, OHSAS 18001 SA 8000 and NABET Accredited Internal Auditor for auditing of EHS Statutory Compliance and also achieved Merit Certificate from NABET for EHS Internal Auditor of Statutory Compliance.

Mr Das has professional experience of more than 16 years across large MNCs (consulting/KPO) like HSBC, EY and IBM. He is proficient in Financial Risk Management especially credit risk management in banks. Besides being an entrepreneur, he is working as a corporate trainer (mainly in the financial domain) and a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) solutions provider.

Mr. Jayachander responsibilities include Quality Assurance and Project Management, preferably in Chemical and Water / Waste Water Treatment and developing new processes towards improvement in the quality of the process streams, ensuring better process efficiency and productivity which ultimately contributed to the objective of energy and environment conservation. He is instrumental in the preparation of sustainability report for the company and facilitated carbon stock study programme faunal documentation within the campus to highlight the contribution of the company performance towards environment conservation.

Mr. Chattopadhyay has 28 years of experience in working in projects, engineering, corporate excellence, operations and maintenance mainly in the power industry in India and abroad. Having worked in many MNCs, he has got in depth understanding and turn around capacity in business excellence arena.

Mr. Moturi has 12 years of experience in Refinery operations, Brownfield expansion, HSE Sustainability. He is involved in pre-commissioning and start-up of Crude Distillation Unit, Petrochemical FCC, Delayed Coker, ICPR Utilities Refinery Crude processing and product dispatch planning; Refinery Strategy Disruptive Technologies Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence role in refinery as well as Climate Change United Nations SDGs.

Mr. Chanda responsibilities include overseeing CSR initiatives of 2 integrated plants 5 Grinding Units in North, Annual Budgeting, Social Impact Assessment, Societal Satisfaction Studies, Project Implementation as Skilled in developing benchmarks / conducting best practice review to highlight competitor performance, recommendations to define sustainability and CSR strategies based on business and stakeholder requirements proven ability in the end to end management of assigned projects in compliance to project delivery schedules and other SLA parameters and is adept in Stakeholders Engagement, Employee Development, and Corporate Governance.

Ms. Mazumdar is a Sustainability professional with a demonstrated history of working in Aluminum, Thermal, Renewable Sector currently in hospitality industry. Skilled in ISO 14001, Environmental Compliance, Health, and Safety (EHS), Biodiversity, Sustainable Supply Chain Sustainability Reporting. Participated in formulation of Sustainability Strategy for Business, collaborated with institutions for resource management projects and conducted livelihood projects

Ms. Zariwala has functional experience in the Independently handled Sustainability aspects on energy, water, waste, infra, safety people initiatives. She has expertise on GRI, UNSDG, DJSI, CDP, WSA, ESG, NVG guideline-based reporting. A proven track record with innovative application of sustainability principles in a large conglomerate, she has hands on experience of environmental regulations reporting requirements, including corporate sustainability. Her role includes to initiate and manage programmess with internal external stakeholders to achieve timely completion.

Ms. Shah Work experience ranges from environmental sustainability strategy design, carbon accounting, ISO 14001:2015 EMS and OHSAS 18001:2007 process design and development, associate engagement, HSE performance reporting and various external disclosures like CDP, DJSI, BRR, etc. Also leading the HSE process automation vertical to leverage analytics and IoT for HSE interventions

Reach4Green Solutions is a firm established to help organizations in their Sustainability journey. We provide all types of services in association with industry leaders right from Strategy development, Materiality Assessment, Stakeholder Engagement to Sustainability reporting as per GRI Standards for an organization. We also help promote certain chemical products having complete end to end transparency

Mr. Yadav key responsibilities – Sustainability Report based on GRI standards; Centralized Energy, Air and Water Management systems; e-Material Flow completely automated system with real-time visibility and alerts across supply chain on pull concept Real-time visual display of critical information OLE/OEE on shop floor for timely corrective actions; Master Data Management, SAP (ERP) support; and video-based e-Learning content creation management

Rajesh is a Sustainability enthusiast. A driver of Sustainability at Hero MotoCorp and strategized HATS – Hero Ambitious Target on Sustainability, and orchestrated Hero first Sustainability Report for FY 18. He identified the importance of Supply Chain Sustainability Implementing Sustainability Procurement Guidelines across value chain.

He brings visibility on Sustainability efforts to investors by participating on sustainability platforms – DJSI (Dow Jones Sustainability Index), Sustain-analytics and others.

He has been instrumental in GreenCo – Central coordinator facilitated Hero to achieve the Platinum Award – 1stAutomotive Company.

As a Programme Manager for Green Initiatives across Hero, he conceptualized Green Dealer Development Programme (GDDP) – first of its kind in the automotive sector. He also formalized the first product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on GaBi.

He is certified on GRI Standards and is a certified Energy Manager (BEE).

Rajesh would love to guide & assist any organization or individual on his passion – Sustainability.

Mr Anant is a Sustainability and Business Excellence professional with experience of EHS management, obtaining Environment, Forest and Safety clearances and regulatory compliances. Near 20 years of experience in energy sector with Reliance Energy, Lanco, Monnet and Adani Power. Bachelor in Life Sciences, Master in Environmental Science followed by degree in Laws covering Environmental Laws and M. Phil from Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. International General Certificate in OHS from NEBOSH and Advance Diploma in Industrial Safety Management from MSBTE, Mumbai. Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner, Certified Practitioner for Integrated Reporting, Lead Auditor ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001. Experience of development of EHS Management Systems, Sustainability Report using GRI Standards, Integrated Report using IR Framework and SDGs, Principles of UN Global Compact and IFC Sustainability Framework. Has been assessor for IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Awards between 2008 and 2010.

Mr Khadse is a Graduate engineer having 25 years of experience in the field of Fire safety and EHS. Founder CEO of group of companies involved in Consulting, Audits and Training services for Fire and EHS. The company has been executing many consulting projects in India, SAARC and Africa region. Professional member of NFPA, NSC, ASIS, FSAI.

Mr Paul responsibilities include cost management of TSL India operations covering three major aspects of Planning, Monitoring Review and Improvement and creating a cost consciousness culture in the organization through various cost appreciation programmes so as to bring all the employees right from the shop floor to the mainstream of cost management. To Facilitate apex management taking informed decisions relating to target setting thru benchmarking/ competitive analysis and supporting due diligence study (for MA, JVs) etc.

Dr Sankaralingam expertise is in modern method of pulping and bleaching without increasing load on the environment, identifying new wood or agro based raw material for pulp and paper making industry and environmentally friendly bleaching chemical identification for safe pulp bleaching.

Mr Chalke is a Chartered Engineering Management Consulting professional with Doctorate Degree in Engineering Management having 30+ years of extensive industry experience and proven record of significant, successful contribution in International Management System Standards , Technical Regulations and Sustainability Frameworks, Leadership, Risk Management, Environment/Climate Change, Sustainability Strategy, Reporting and Assurance, CSR, Growth strategies, and Programme/Project Management in a wide range of industries/organizations.

A Civil engineer, having experience in senior roles with leading Construction/Real Estate Companies in India, Ms. Sunny expertise is in Implementation, Monitoring and Internal Audits of Management Systems, QMS 9001:2015, EMS 14001:2015, OHS 45001:2018 Social Accountability SA 8000, Sustainability Reporting based on GRI Standards, Qualitative Research, Organizational Sustainability Assessments, Sustainability System implementation as well as conducting Compliance, Green Audits and B Corp certification.

Mr Chouhan responsibilities include formulation, Budgeting Execution of strategic CSR programs. Designing sustainable CSR projects by assessing needs of the community and doing impact assessment after implementation of the projects. Liaising with various stakeholders and designing a grievance redressal mechanism, effective Monitoring Evaluation of projects to achieve SMART Goals and compliance with audits and other governance systems.

Mr Buddhi Prakash is a result-oriented social work professional with rich and indigenous experience in Corporate Social Responsibility, Project Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management and working in partnership with NGOs. He has Expertise in working with the rural and diverse communities, bringing out innovative ideas for fund raising avenues and tie-ups with the Government; reaching out to unexplored rural market segments/ rural customer groups for business expansion.

Mr Yadav advises facilitates all plants in risk mitigation and minimize accidental losses, drive the sustainability initiative, Environmental Management system, and resource conservation program across the organization. Promotes employee engagement activities for safety and environment awareness and ensures compliances of all applicable national and local legislation and adherence to standards w.r.t Safety Environment

Mr Chandan has experience in HR Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Consulting in the areas of talent acquisition, project management, TD, livelihood sustainability projects, Data Analytics, Client Servicing, Vendor Management along with credentials in Information Technology. The current learning focus is to excel in the field of Human Resource Development Community Sustainability and contribute to the organization/community with the right strategic interventions. His specialties are: Implementation of CSR projects, Need assessment studies sustainability projects for CSR, Community capacity building process, HR Process and Training and Development.

Managing Environmental Compliances (monitoring and report submission) as per all ECs and Consent, Enhesa Regulatory Compliance Management Implementation of ABG Sustainability Framework Technical Standards, Management Standards Guidance Notes (SAQs) Enablon Management Sustainability Information Management System Certified lead assessor for ISO 14001 OHSAS-18001.

Naresh is presently working with Sterlite Power Transmission Limited, HV/EHV Cable manufacturing unit, and heading Operational Excellence. Responsible to drive continues improvements through Lean, TPM, TQM, and Lean Six Sigma. Also part of CFT for strategic planning to deployment.

Shubhenjit is the Managing Director of Tata Pigments Limited. He is an Electronics Engineer from BIT Mesra and has done his PG Diploma in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. He has worked in Tata Steel since 1990, mostly in the export function, including a five-year stint in Shanghai, China. His immediate past two assignments were as the Chief Marketing Sales of Tata Steel Wires Division and the Chief Corporate Sustainability.

Responsible for implementation of Corporate level QA systems and processes across Tata Steel and implementation of TQM practices at the Odisha plant of Tata Steel.

For the past four years I am working as Head WCM, Business Excellence, Sustainability for Chemicals, Fertilizers, Insulators business in Aditya Birla group. I am responsible for implementation of Sustainability and Business Excellence in the Business. ABG has its own Sustainability Framework which aims to raise group sustainability standards to world class levels.

I am a senior Assessor for CII Axis Bank Excellence Award and also a Senior Assessor for CII ITC sustainability awards. I have done many assessments outside the organization and have picked up many good practices. I am also an Assessor for the internal Business Excellence framework developed for the Aditya Birla Group.

I am also an Assessor for the CII Greenco rating system. Apart from this I am trainer in many areas with focus on culture building and behavioral transformation. I am also a trainer on DuPont safety and have trained unit resources on behavioral safety in HUL and Aditya Birla Group.

Ekaagra Social & Microfinance Foundation, & Ekaagra Technology Accelerators Private Limited

Biren Vora is the Founder of Ekaagra Social & Microfinance Foundation, & Ekaagra Technology Accelerators Private Limited. He had previously worked in companies in the PSU, Indian Private Sector & in MNC’s for over 3 decades. His work experience encompasses various disciplines such as Manufacturing Operations, Business Development, Six Sigma Quality, Business Transformation & Digitization, Sourcing, SAP implementation, Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility in some of the leading companies, across a wide range of industries such as Petrochemicals, Polymer Processing, BPO, Financial Services, Telecom, & Retail. He is an MTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, MBA from Universitas 21 Global, PG Diploma in Environmental Law from NLSIU, & PG Diploma in Community Mental Health from MS University, Vadodara.

Driving Corporate Sustainability at Tata Projects effective 1st Oct 2016. Head- Corporate Sustainability driving the Sustainability journey at Tata Projects across all the functions. The key responsibilities are developing the Sustainability Strategy and identify Key Material issues and Governance mechanisms deploying the Sustainability Strategy through Cross-functional team. The deployment is across all the sites and office locations of Tata Projects by defining the KPI goals and Targets and based on data analysis and identify interventions and improvement areas. We are aligned to the Tata Group and Tata Projects Sustainability Policy and the company sustainability initiatives for environmental social labor and people were assessed as per GRI guidelines.

Overseeing end-to-end factory operations Starting from arranging raw materials to dispatching of finished products as per production vs dispatch plan and directing entire production supply chain operations with accountability for utilization of available resources as per pre-set schedules; executing cost-saving techniques to achieve a reduction in terms of man-days energy conservation. Also responsible for the sustenance of ISO 22000 ISO 14001 BS OHSAS18001 ISO 9001 SA 8000 GMP systems in the unit.

Dr. T. N. Venkatasubramanian has academic research exposure on implementing Sustainability and CSR (PhD Masters). He has independently carried-out organizational sustainability research including public policy analyses. He has more than 15 years of experience in policy and strategy development on sustainability and CSR. He desires an advisory role / member of board of directors.

Sunil Deshmukh is an Environment professional having diversified experience in the areas of Environment Management, Biodiversity, Social Environmental impact Assessment, Sustainability, Environment compliance, Capacity building, Environmental approvals, Environmental due diligence etc. He is Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner, Certified EMS Lead Auditor, QMS Internal Auditor, HSE auditor and NABET accredited EIA coordinator. Sunil Deshmukh is post graduate in Environment and also holds P G Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety.

A Senior EHS & Sustainability Professional with over 21 years of proven credentials in Environment Health Occupational Safety Sustainability He is a Post Graduate in Environmental Science Engineering from IIT worked in large-scale projects of Metal Mining Consulting Sectors at Manufacturing Plant/Corporate Level. Presently working as Vice President Corporate Head EHS Sustainability.

Have 25 years of work experience with Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Marketing Division in varied roles- Corporate Sustainability strategy, training, change management, Renewable energy, Business Development, Knowledge Management, ERP, Institutional sales, LPG marketing Distribution.

An incisive professional with Doctorate in Sustainable Marketing and CII certified Sustainability assessor with 21 years’ experience, 11 years in Industry in Business to Business Marketing of specialty chemicals with expertise in Marketing, Pricing, Market Research, SD module of SAP and ISO 9001: 2008 processes.

10 Years in Academics, five years as Program Head PGDM with Business School, teaching subjects such as Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing Strategy. Experience in pedagogic Innovations, Industry-Academic Interface. Managing the entire Value Chain in Management education, MR for ISO 9001: 2015.

PhD in Sustainable Marketing Practices implemented by FMCG Sector in India.

My experience ranges from Industrial Relations, Employee Welfare, Legal Compliance, Human Rights, Employee Development, HRM, Administration, Contract Management, and Business Ethics, Risk Management (JSOX Audits) to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Cement, Textiles, Industrial Automation and Construction Equipment manufacturing Industries.

Heading Human resources department of Plant and BD office in Haryana and Delhi regions while having additional responsibilities of Administration, CSR and OHC .

In all these spaces I am fully responsible from the very budget preparation to the activities to be done which include Effective Talent Management Hiring, ER Engagement, Policies, PMS, Corporate Social responsibilities Woman Empowerment, Health and education, and Sustainable Communities, Health and wellness initiatives across and admin function like Quality Service to the relevant stakeholders

Head HR of the Site End to End management of al HR/ IR/D and Corporate Services of the site.

Rajarajan Tamilselvam Owner of RTVS Consulting provide consulting and training on personality development, business skill development, business improvement, process improvement, productivity enhancement, cost optimization, shareholder wealth maximization through Lean and Six Sigma methodology.

He is a graduate in Electrical Electronic Engineering (Sandwich) from PSG Technology, Coimbatore; Postgraduate in Master of Business Administration ( Industrial Business ) from VIT, Vellore. He is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from LSS Academy, Malaysia. He is a certified MSME QCI – ZED Master Trainer, CII ITC Sustainability Award Assessor.

an alumnus of prestigious National Defence Academy and an army veteran with more than 31 years of rich extensive and varied experience in senior leadership positions with some of India most prestigious organizations. He has been the Top Shot while serving as the Second-in-Command of the elite Counter-Terrorist unit of National Security Guard (Black Cat Commandos) and led highly technical complex surface to air guidance and weapon systems in the army besides being a Senior Trainer & Instructor in one of the prominent army training institutes. Praveen was the founder of Country Head (Loss Prevention Asset Protection) with Aditya Birla Retail and Bharti Retail (in Joint Venture with Wal-Mart). He has a had a very diversified portfolio during past 8 years or so with Cairn India an Oil Gas conglomerate.

Prasenjit Mazumder is an independent consultant and senior management professional with 27 years of extensive experience in Business Transformation, Complex Change Management and Information Technology. He has deep subject matter expertise in Digital Enterprise, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. Prasenjit has MBA degree from IIM Bangalore and MCA degree from IMT Ghaziabad. He is also a Certified Sustainability Assessor by AccountAbility UK and a Certified CSR Professional by IICA.

Working as COO for Distributed Solar Business of Mahindra Susten which is clean tech arm of Mahindra Group. Heading the Sustainability CSR functions at corporate level. Six Sigma Black Belt & Business Excellence Master Black Belt.

Mr. Ghosal has been working in Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Excellence Strong stakeholder engagement Team building Convergence. He specializes in strategic management and the Implementation BNP Paribas etc) along with management and strategic guidance to the Company Foundation/Trust for Social Development programs of CSR programs. He is also done social and environment safeguards compliance for the lenders (International finance corporation Asian Development Bank

Business Sustainability Professional with exposure in Low-Carbon Business model. Also, Identification Business risk, Stakeholder Engagement, and Human Rights, Environmental, Social Risk Management, Shared Value Business Models, Shared, Circular Economy, Product Stewardship, Benign design and innovation, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainability Reporting.

Monikut currently heads the Learning Development Function for Tata-Hitachi and Lead HR Business Partner for Operations. Apart from handling different areas of Human Resources, he has worked in Business Excellence, TPM and CSR. As a member of the Business Excellence team, he has designed and implemented systems under the TBEM framework (the Tata Business Excellence model, based on the Malcolm Baldridge model) and the TPM Award of JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance) for Manufacturing Excellence. He is a certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2015.

Dr. M Manjunath Shettigar is an academic with over 3 decades of experience as a professor and researcher, with specialization in economics, business strategy, corporate governance, business ethics, business sustainability, and CSR.

He was an ICSSR Research Fellow at Institute for Social Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, and was a Visiting Fellow at Center of Advanced Study, University of Bombay.

Presently he is associated with Christ University, Bangalore, as a Professor of Economics and Management.

Managing corporate social responsibility of domestic textiles and insulator business of Aditya Birla Group. Exposure in managing business operations sales and distribution funding corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

Being an HR head of the organization CSR and procedures related to staffing training compensation and compliance. To originate and lead HR practices and objectives that will provide an employee-oriented high-performance culture that emphasizes empowerment productivity and standards and the recruitment and ongoing development of a department head workforce. To guide and manage the overall provision of human resources services goal attainment and the recruitment and ongoing development of a department head workforce. To guide and manage the overall provision of human resources services policies and programs for the entire company.

In NTPC Limited: Worked in the operation of coal-based super thermal power plants and Gas-based combined cycle power plants for 30 years. Worked the last 4 years in the sustainable development department of NTPC at the corporate center, Noida. Sustainability Report for FY: 2016-17 was drafted and brought out under his direct supervision and guidance in GRI-G4 format. Kitchen waste recycling and application of Vetiver Grass for sustainable development are his areas of specialization.

He is the Head of a specialty coffee production unit, and is responsible for Production of the unit inclusive all the legal and statutory requirements catering to global customers and maintain global standards of the product and developing a network of coffee growers to be incorporated as suppliers. He is a post-graduate in horticulture and plays an advisory role on plantation management in farms using global standards, developing a knowledge network to improve the quality standards of small coffee farmers which enables them to achieve internationally recognized standards.

Jai has worked in production and production engineering functions of Tata Hitachi and in process planning and rationalization functions of Hitachi construction machinery, Japan. His present work profile includes NPD, process standardization, vendor capability development, lean manufacturing through process improvement and global quality monozukuri diagnostics. He has done his mechanical engineering from BIT Sindri and PGDM in operations and finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Jagadeesh is a CSR and sustainability professional with 20 years of experience. Currently, he is heading the CSR function for all the entities of Syngenta in India and previously he worked for Toyota and Hindalco (Aditya Birla Group). He has also worked for MYRADA a reputed non-governmental organization working for sustainable development in southern India. He has worked in all aspects of CSR and sustainability. He has led the team to plan and implement CSR projects of national coverage and also implemented successful projects for the communities surrounding the plants in multiple locations. He has implemented a number of CSR projects through NGO partners as well as through government collaborations. He has been trained by the Graduate Institute of Geneva on Public Policy and partnerships. He has also been trained on social audit participatory impact monitoring elected representatives media

Mr. Chadha is a mechanical engineer and diploma in management by qualification. He has varied types of work experience in the areas of maintenance production sales after-sales service finished vehicle logistics and currently taking care of community development under CSR. He has been good in academics and was awarded a gold medal in engineering. Professionally started the extended warranty program for Maruti Cars was the first sales trainer for Maruti Suzuki in Delhi region and also achieved a commendation certificate for CII-ITC Awards 2016.

C. Mani is a champion, facilitator of process excellence, sustainability and total quality management with a proven track record across a spectrum of manufacturing industries. He has graduated in Mechanical Engineering and also holds two postgraduate degrees in engineering management and computer science, from NIT Trichy.

He has around 36 years of experience in power sector manufacturing (BHEL) handling various functions like manufacturing, quality, materials and outsourcing, industrial engineering and systems, logistics, HSE, business excellence, and project management. He has audit experience of three years in Bureau Veritas for QHSE systems and sustainability verification.

As a CSR and sustainability professional partnership and stakeholder engagement across civil societies and corporates. Being an ex-gentleman cadet of Indian Military Academy Dehradun, he actively engages in mentoring young talent for fostering leadership qualities in his personal capacity.

Arunakumara has more than 19 years of experience working with Toyota Kirloskar motor. Currently, he is in the business of providing training consultancy and sustenance systems establishments in safety energy projects and management. He is an electrical engineer BEE-certified Energy Manager and ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor (Certified by TUV).

Anshuman has over 17 years of experience in IT consumer electronics and management consulting companies. He has worked in 20+ countries. Anshuman has led strategic sales delivery and operations teams. He is a qualified enterprise architect specializing in driving business and technology transformations across complex organizations. He has past work experience with companies like Nokia Ericsson Thomson and Tata Group. He is currently perusing independent research in the area of business sustainability while working for the largest DTH TV broadcasters in Malaysia.

Brijesh is working on environment and forest aspects including clearances from various statutory bodies (MOEFCC, State Pollution Control Boards, Central Ground Water Authority) required at various stages of developmental projects from concept to commissioning of projects. Compliance to the conditions of various statutory clearances including implementation of Environmental Management Plan (EMP). Expertise in support for enviro-legal cases pending in various judiciaries including National Green Tribunal (NGT), High Court, Supreme Court. He plays active role in corporate sustainability by initiating various studies/reports such as carbon footprint assessment, biodiversity action plan, HDI Study, sustainability management framework, sustainability report.

Ajit superannuated from Larsen Toubro after 40 years of service. the last designation held being Executive Vice President Corporate Infrastructure Services. He has handled end-to-end responsibility (manufacturing to sales marketing) including P/L as business unit head of electrical standard products. While at corporate

Abhishek is presently looking after operational, business excellence and five management systems. He has experience in strategy planning, data analysis, benchmarking, gap analysis, action plan preparation for various national and international awards, TPM/TQM and vibration analysis/condition monitoring.

Azhagesan major responsibilities include:

Act as secretary to the Board of Directors and Board Committees.

Ensure compliance to corporate and economic laws.

Facilitate interpretation and compliance to all applicable laws.

Execute, conclude and administer contracts and agreements.

Filing, defense and disposal of all litigations and cases, and Provide insurance cover for all assets, interests, and liabilities, and manage insurance claims

Dinesh Agrawal is an independent professional with more than 40 years of experience in NTPC in the areas of Governance

Mahesh is a passionate sustainability professional and a senior research scholar doing doctoral study on globally most sustainable corporations. He is also a guest lecturer on sustainability CSR. He has worked 17 years in manufacturing, marketing, business excellence, sustainability CSR Function. He articulated sustainability CSR roadmap with integration in all business functions which enabled the company to be water positive. He is six sigma black belt, TQM practitioner with hands on experience dealing different management standards.

Yashmi is responsible for sustainable business communications for Hindustan Unilever India operations. She joined HUL in 2003 and have handled responsibilities in the areas of internal communications and media relations. Prior to joining HUL, worked with one of the leading national daily Hindustan Times in New Delhi as a business correspondent. She has done a post-graduate diploma course in Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi after graduating in Sociology Hons from Jesus Mary College, Delhi University, New Delhi.

Yogesh has experience in Green Field / Brownfield Projects (completed green field projects ranging from Rs 501100 crores Value), civil maintenance, business excellence, sustainability, and quality change management functions. He has worked with manufacturing industries like cement (14 years), power, chemicals, pesticides, and Central Government. He is currently heading civil project systems (MR: IMS, operational excellence sustainability) department @ Aditya Birla Group (Grasim: Epoxy Division). Also extending services as SME (Subject Matter Expert) to CFI (chemicals, fertilizers, and insulators) projects cell on project management sustainable Infrastructure. He is a lead auditor for QMS, ABG operational excellence framework assessors, site leader for scaffolding standard, chairman SRPSC (standard rules procedure subcommittee), and basic condition evaluation assessor. Completed 2 Six sigma projects as GB 1 project as BB. He completed TPM audits of 6 cement plants as well due diligence for acquiring Dhar Cement. Rehabilitated more than 30 – 45 years old plant structures with a scientific approach and extended the service life of the plant. Through sustainable construction practices, he contributed in savings of more than 250 Lacs as well the project achieved PMI award at India level and Master J Jacoby award at International level (Asia Region).

Vivek is an environment, health safety, sustainability professional with 10 years of experience in EHS, GHG project development, project management, auditing, environmental and social impact assessment for national international good practice guidance. He has proficiency in environmental, social management, and sustainability reporting frameworks under GRI G4 guidance. He is competent in devising significant solutions and implementing environmental health safety social management systems for maintaining sound stakeholder engagement, environmental health, and safety compliance.

Vishwa Bandhu is leading the sustainability and environment verticals within the CSR sustainability department at Apollo Tyres Limited.

Vinod is a seasoned sustainability professional with 23 years of experience with organizations of repute like T, UltraTech Utkal Alumina Int. Ltd (Aditya Birla Group), Jayaswal Neco Industries, and ACC Ambuja Cements (LafargeHolcim). He has worked in all aspects of sustainability. Lead the team and successfully handled the matters related to the EIA/EMP, forest clearances, environmental clearance public Hearing, GRI reporting, IMS system implementation, CGWB, fuel linkage, BIS related matters, afforestation, significant expertise and strong technical competence and knowledge of environmental issues, along with substantial expertise in environmental management, environmental sciences, environmental policy, institutions and capacity development and in safeguards design, implementation and management. Leading facilitating effective liaison with authorities for exchange of experiences, and continuous improvement of practices and integration of environmental policy commitments.

Managing and providing guidance and policy support on compliance. Implementation of biodiversity guidelines, alternative fuels, Implementation of CSR guidelines, Industrial safety and land-related legal matters, etc.

Vinay is working as a senior engineer for plant engineering division & having academic credentials like MTech in environmental engineering, diploma in Industrial safety, ISO 14001:2015 version lead auditor, CII Sustainability Assessor & MIE from the institute of engineers.

Upasana Choudhry is South Asia Manager sustainability and product compliance at HP India with the primary responsibility of planning and implementation of the company product environmental strategies and delivering valuable leadership with a focus to establish a compelling business case.

She has a professional work experience of over 20 years spread across diverse sectors. She holds master’s degrees in development studies and in social work and started her professional career with not-for-profit organizations working on diverse social and environmental issues including human rights, labor, and health among others.

She has been actively involved in global policy advocacy and represented her organizations at the International Labor Conferences (ILC) of ILO worst form of child labor convention, Conference of Parties (COP) to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, inter-governmental meetings on strategic approaches to Integrated Chemicals Management (SAICM), and Intergovernmental forum on chemicals safety.

She has field-tested the Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) framework developed by WASTE Netherlands in 2010; as well as undertook research on radioactive waste in India in 2009 with support from Henrich Boel Foundation. She was awarded a fellowship under 2008 Leadership Program of the UNEP-Eco Peace Leadership Center for carrying out photo documentation of electronic waste recycling in informal sector.

At HP she spearheads initiatives associated with product responsibility, supply chain responsibility, employee engagement, ethics and compliance, and health and safety. Upasana holds a key position on behalf of HP at various committees set up by industry associations (MAIT, FICCI, CII) and government departments (Ministry of IT, BIS, BEE). In 2013, she was recognized by MAIT for her contribution to the industry on electronic waste.

Umesh is responsible for process management, project management process assessment within the organization across functions and also involved in key strategic initiatives like robotics process automation mobility

Tapendu is a professional with certifications in energy auditing, business management, working at the corporate office at the senior management level. He is involved in consulting, system implementation, project management in sustainable initiatives in energy, environment resource conservation, optimization of power sources for optimal cost, power security RPO compliances, PAT compliance – energy auditing management, operation maintenance (mechanical electrical) of cement plant, thermal captive power plant. He is also a member of the BEE syllabus review committee, certified lead auditor of ISO 14000, certified facilitator from DDI, certified job evaluator from HAY besides strategizing change management in an organization.

Suresh is an energy management professional having diversified experience in energy/environment management, renewable energy, and sustainable manufacturing. Being a certified energy auditor, he has the experience of conducting energy efficiency improvement studies and implemented energy-saving measures. Worked closely with the government for the development of normalization factors under the PAT scheme. Currently involved in the development implementation of a detailed plan for achieving ACC SD ambition through various energy conservation measures creation of monitoring system for the same and energy roadmap development along with action plan for controlling overall energy cost to have a competitive advantage.

Environment Area:

Development and facilitating the implementation of corporate environmental strategy for ensuring environmental compliance, obtaining environment clearances, co-ordination with all the central and state regulators on compliance issues, CAPEX sanctions for environmental compliance, environmental internal audits and facilitating the compliance of the audit findings, ordering emissions effluents controlling and monitoring systems along with up-keeping troubleshooting of these systems, finalization of annual rate contracts for various emissions-related systems and spares, global and domestic environment MIS, reporting environment carbon performance on various external platforms like CDP and capacity building.

Sustainability:

Development and facilitating implementation of corporate sustainability strategy, release of externally assured SD and CO2 reports, MIS related to Sustainable development KPIs and reporting to Board / Executive Committee.

Capacity Building:

Internal training in the areas of climate change, environmental sustainability.

Sowmya is a post graduate in environmental science and a diploma holder in industrial safety. She has varied experience in health, safety, environment and sustainability. EHS sustainability process knowledge and hands on experience in implementation of management systems ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, GHG accounting and reporting. Subject matter expert for developing software tools like carbon foot printing, EHS, incident management system and compliance. She is a One Young World Ambassador and have attended a One Young World summit and now part of the international alumni network.

Shalin has done B.E environment in 1997 and M.E. environment management (gold medalist) in 2008. He has experience in environment management, climate change, cleaner production, waste to energy, CDM and multilateral environmental agreements with 20 publications. He is currently working as head environment of APSEZ since 2015 covering 10 port locations across the country. Some leading projects undertaken include zero waste initiatives, carbon footprint assessment and sustainability reporting (GRI-G4).

Shailaja started her career at the World Bank as a developmental statistician and moved on into corporate roles most notably leading CSR, sustainability and public affairs at Shell India over a period of twelve years. She subsequently headed entrepreneurship development at a leading philanthropic foundation and has been associated with various industry bodies and academia.

Saroj joined Tata Steel as a graduate trainee in 1999 and since then have worked in various capacities ranging from electrical maintenance, project management, project planning, execution, erection, commissioning, and stabilization of 3MTPA expansion project at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. Thereafter moved to operation function in steel making area as senior manager thin slab caster and presently working as head of secondary steel making and ladle preparation. In 2014-15 he also discharged the responsibilities of commissioning of twin RH2 project at LD2 SC complex of Tata steel. He has worked in various supporting roles such as auditors of ISO 9001, ISO 14000, value engineering, TQM coordinators, OSHAS, and SAP implementation. His educational qualifications include BE in Electrical Engineering from BIT Sindri, PGDBM from VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur and post-graduation diploma in Steel Technology from IIT Kharagpur

Santosh is working as Head of the environment division and Chief Sustainability Officer of Adani Power. He is responsible for driving sustainability initiatives and reporting for the power generation and transmission businesses of Adani Group. As head of the environment division, he is responsible for obtaining environmental permits and compliance management and also developed and implemented an environmental management system for all the operational power plants. He also represents Adani Power at National and International forums on sustainability and climate change

Sanjeev is currently Head of technical services PET resin plants.

Certified on six sigma, ISO systems, process safety, behavioral safety and operational risk management.

Expert for evaluation of energy and water conservation schemes

Certified on business excellence models (CII-Exim bank).

Turnkey projects commissioning.

Sanjeev toped in chemical engineering from Poona University, 1987 batch.

An accomplished and experienced corporate sustainability communications professional with a strong background, Sangeeta has been in the business responsibility advisory space since 2013. Prior to this, she led sustainability in Tata Teleservices and Tata Power DDL and communications at IBM India, Tata Tele, Tata Power DDL, Cummins, LML, and as a consultant with Think Through Consulting. With over 22 years of experience, she has spent more than 10 years leading, devising, and implementing innovative and sustainable, value-creation strategies for the organizations she has worked for and client organizations. She has been a business excellence assessor since 2004.

For the work she has done, she has been felicitated with the ASSE-DL Shah Trust Award for excellence in sustainability 2015, the Asia Publishing Award for the most innovative internal communications campaign 2010, the CMO Asia Award for sustainable strategies 2011, the FICCI-CSR Award 2010 and 2011 and the WILL (Women in Leadership), Best Mentee Award 2011 for promoting diversity and Inclusion. Sangeeta is a CII-certified Sustainability Assessor, an IOD-Certified Independent Corporate Director, and certified by GRI to report as per G4 Guidelines.

Sandeep is a co-founder at VNV Advisory. His work includes community-based interventions for climate mitigation projects, forestry, sustainability reporting, environmental footprinting, climate change, and sustainable supply chain. He plays an advisory role to over 100 companies and countless non – profits for carbon-related affairs and climate change and his rural-based work encompasses over one million households across South Asia.

Samir is a development professional with over 18 years of experience in community development and strategizing CSR for large corporates/MNCs NGOs having experience in program/project coordination and handling issues related to community development stakeholder engagement.

Narayanmurthy has more than 20 years of work experience in industries such as food products, beverages, cosmetic beauty care products, fine chemicals, and bulk drugs. He is currently working as Head of the engineering department and is responsible for efficient and effective production, quality maintenance, occupational health safety of employees, and effective distribution of the manufactured product to the market.

Sridhara has thirty years of experience in operations, quality and environment fields. He has wide experience in organizational processes such organizational health, job descriptions and job analysis. He is a technical expert in the chemical and especially chlor-alkali Industry. He is certified lead assessor for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. He has five years implementation experience of DuPont model work place safety and process safety. Besides, presently he has passion for NLP, leadership management. He lectures on principles of BHAGAVAT GEETHA and correlates with management principles.

Sustainability coordinator for implementation of technical and management standards, IFCC, IMC guidelines.

Implementation of environmental management plan related to open cast, underground, hydro, and pyro zinc smelter.

Management representative for IMS.

Lead auditor for ISO 14001 OHSAS 18001, trained GRI 4, CII certified assessor

Documentation of EIA for new / expansion projects, public hearings, and approvals from CGWA, MoEF, SPCB

Involved in various studies on socio-economic, hydrology, land use, recharge well structures, biological Lead, biodiversity Index study, conservation plans, construction and capping of onsite secure landfill, RO for wastewater, waste sump stabilization, efficiency evaluation of dust control equipment

Rubi is an MBA (marketing) from NMIMS, Mumbai (2002-04). She is a development professional with a passion for learning and development. She has worked with reputed organizations like Tata Chemicals Ltd, Arvind Limited, UPL Ltd, and CGPL (Tata Power) to name a few. Her expertise lies in conducting research-based studies (need assessment, impact assessment) documentation, and analysis.

Rathish is a co-founder and managing partner at Sattva and leads the operations of the consulting practice. As part of his role, Rathish engages closely with corporations, non-profit organizations, social enterprises and the larger ecosystem in designing, implementing and scaling innovative businesses on the ground.

Rathish takes care of the research and development efforts at Sattva. He has contributed towards advocacy and policy formulation at both State and Central level on education and skill development. He is part of the faculty for the CSR certification course conducted by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.

Prior to Sattva, Rathish has worked for ten years at Indian and international companies across engineering, research and development, product management, solution management, and corporate strategy.

Rajeev is actively involved in cultivation and production of coffee, pepper, cardamom and allied plantation products. He plays an active role in plantation budgets, sustainability certifications such as rain forest alliance, UTZ, social accountability 8000 and CAF practices

Dr. Rajan is handling a leadership role at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals with the objective to strategize, influence, develop and implement strong EHS systems and drive sustainability agenda. His current responsibilities include EHS management at 14 manufacturing facilities (11 within India 3 outside), 4 research centers, 2 warehouses, and head office.

Raja is a chemical engineer with masters in industrial pollution abatement from IIT Roorkee having experience in fertilizer, glass and automobile sectors. His expertise includes environmental facility management, landscape and biodiversity management, climate change mitigation, legal compliance, product stewardship and green supply chain, cross-functional sustainability initiatives involving process and product and environment and sustainability related disclosures reporting.

A former Captain from the Indian Army, Rahul past experience spans leading diverse teams and operations in high stakes, high stress environment, strategic planning and implementation, and resource management. Being battle hardened in the high altitudes of the deserts of Rajasthan and the jungles of North East, he was the co-founder of a start-up venture responsible for carrying out maverick projects for top global companies. Due to his belief in community outreach and sustainable initiatives, his organizations carried out social initiatives which have been appreciated by the community and media. He is currently heading the enterprise risk management team of an Indo Japanese Joint venture.

Prashant has versatile experience in manufacturing, HR, business excellence, CSR and sustainability, He is six sigma black belt, prince2 project manager and have done projects in HR, sales, finance, logistics and distribution domain. He has completed certified managing natural capital training in biodiversity. He is currently program manager for corporate social responsibility projects in skill development.

Prashant has versatile experience in manufacturing, HR, business excellence, CSR and sustainability, He is six sigma black belt, prince2 project manager and have done projects in HR, sales, finance, logistics and distribution domain. He has completed certified managing natural capital training in biodiversity. He is currently program manager for corporate social responsibility projects in skill development.

Pramod has worked in various companies like Adani Enterprises Limited, Energy Infra Limited etc. At present he is in charge of coordinating sustainability reporting system/framework for AEL- coal mining business. He is a strategic leader with proven track record of building and leading effective cross-functional, multi-site, and multi-business teams, driving change initiatives, and implementing EHS, CSR biodiversity strategies with help of SAP, primavera & EHMS software.

With a background in economics and rural management and a certified master trainer by Pearson, UK, Nirmallya has been providing consultancy to various state governments, bilateral projects, funding agencies like World Bank, NABARD, GIZ, IFAD, UNDP, CSR and international NGOs in areas of enterprise promotion for FPOs and MSMEs, social research, value chain analyses, strategy formulation for livelihoods promotion programs, project management, and capacity building. He has emerged as an expert in the field of agricultural value chains, market-based livelihoods promotion, and business process establishment and re-engineering for start-ups and producer organizations.

Heading the human resource function and corporate social responsibility initiates of the organization.

Lead stakeholder engagement strategy in AES India.

Strategize OPGC social responsibility initiatives and sustainability practices towards attaining global standards

Krishan has 47 years of experience in companies like Philips, Eicher, etc. He has led functions like supply chain, marketing sales, strategic planning, program management, quality control, etc. He has also set up a business school and was chief people officer of a consulting company. Currently he is in leadership development space as an executive coach and leadership assessor.

Kaushal is currently involved in developing CSR/affirmative action strategy of the company and developing projects based on the community needs and available resources. Major responsibilities include.

Liaising with collaborative partners for taking up innovative rural development programs.

Prepare reports for all programs and develop monitoring impact assessment frameworks.

Develop volunteering plans and organize programs for employee engagement.

Develop reports for internal-external communications

Kota Gowri manages ITC corporate social responsibility initiatives in Andhra Pradesh state. The key role of this position is to lead the state team and leverage relationships with stakeholders, for development and effective implementation of ITC social investment initiatives at the state level.

Kirti carries unique expertise in strategizing and implementing inclusive business models in rural and BoP markets. He has been instrumental in developing teaching module for B-schools on sustainable business models. He is an expert on private sector engagement in community empowerment. Kirti has worked in many assignments across sectors like agribusiness, WASH, livelihoods etc. in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

HR analytics employee experience.

Learning development.

Performance career management.

Contract labor management.

Employee recruitment, retention & productivity

Organizational culture engagement.

CSR / health wellness.

Corporate security management.

Certified internal auditor – IMS (OHSAS).

Kaustubh is an environmental engineer with experience in sustainability, carbon management, water stewardship environmental assessment. He has been driving sustainability programs across the organization, preparing sustainability reports, development of sustainability roadmap stakeholder engagements. Key achievements: Water positive status for major campuses, organization-wide carbon footprint mapping, DJSI CDP ranking for company, and development of risk management framework.

Sivaraman, mechanical engineer from IIT Madras has over 3.5 decades of experience (most part with ITC Ltd) spanning engineering, maintenance, manufacturing and operations, projects, customer service, environment, health, safety and sustainability. He has travelled widely abroad in connection with vendor appraisals, customer meetings and international exhibitions and have played a significant role in various quality initiatives of ITC units and in interactions with regulatory bodies. He had voluntarily contributed in the growth of Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA), an NGO for over a decade. He is now driving Industry projects initiative of IWMA as Advisor in addition to environment projects along with IIT Madras and also carry out independent consultancy in environment field.

Karthikesh is in charge of facilitating business excellence (change management) initiatives, formulating and facilitating execution of affirmative action initiatives and deployment of safety action plans of Tata Coffee.

Rao has rich experience in the field of air pollution control equipment design and manufacturing for various Industries. He was Head of air pollution control business of ACC, which supplied air pollution control systems for various industries in India and overseas. His current assignment includes sustainable development, environment management and associated projects implementation, energy conservation and implementation of energy conservation and renewable energy projects.

Jitendra is a production engineering graduate from Mumbai University, MTech in reliability engineering from IIT Mumbai and has an executive MBA from Crompton Greaves COSMODE. A Six Sigma Champion, TQM Facilitator, BPR Lean Practitioner, Assessor for EFQM Malcolm Baldrige (IMC RBNQA) and Lead Assessor for ISO 9001 / ISO14000 / ISO 27001.

He is an associate academician of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ), a life member of the Indian Society for Quality (IQS) and Quality Council of India (QCI). Is in the advisory council of the World Quality Congress Awards (WQCA), the advisory board of Economic Times Operational Excellence 2014, and the first member of the Lean Management Institute of India (LMII).

He was recognized as the 50 most talented quality professionals in India and awarded in 2014 for innovative leadership in quality. He has presented papers in the various forum of repute viz QCI, ANQ, ASQ, ISQ, IAQ, JUSE, PMI, Frost & Sullivan, Qimpro, Banking Frontier, Voice Data, NITIE, NCQR, MIQ, and CG and enabled many certification and awards for the organization

He has driven originations with innovative quality practices including Larger Scale Interactive Process (LSIP) to create significant financial impact and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Embracing robotics process automation, diagnosing process through business process engineering, leading business-critical, complex cross-functional projects, and building relevant initiatives framework for organization-wide intervention are his core competencies. He is a certified facilitator, coach, and counselor for effective change management.

Spearheading section of environment cell and ensuring smooth functioning.

Flagship contribution as coordinator of sustainability reporting for APSEZ and published 1st sustainability report of the port sector in the country.

Shouldering the responsibility of achieving zero waste management at port and SEZ.

Collaborating with internal clients for environmental compliance.

Trained newly recruited engineers and managers of business units projects.

Created awareness on environment, occupational health safety amongst all through training and counseling

Provided regular inputs to develop EHS managers of business units’ projects

Ensured 100% compliance of EHS related statutory requirements and company EHS guidelines at all times Ensured safe implementation of all projects.

Guided business units for maintaining IMS certifications.

Represented ITC on EHS at various forums.

Guided & assisted business units in achieving prizes from external agencies such as National Safety Council of India, Confederation of Indian Industry, Genentech Foundation, FICCI and British Safety Council.

Carried out EHS audits of the units also, ITC units at other locations as part of corporate EHS audit team.

Hitesh is a graduate electrical engineer PGDM in operation management. He has 23 years of experience in the area of engineering and utility in various textiles plants and responsible for planning the execution of preventive maintenance of plant, operation maintenance of utilities, engineering performance monitoring, planning and execution of projects and expansions etc.

He has also been working with Aditya Birla Group (ABG) since 2006 as head engineering, responsible for driving engineering utility services, various energy-saving initiatives, and qualified as a certified energy manager from BEE in 2010.

He is responsible for driving sustainability, EHS initiatives in line with ABG sustainability policies, technical standards guidance notes, ensuring employee engagement in sustainability initiatives, embedding sustainability into various functions, and facilitating disclosure on sustainability initiatives through BRC reports, GRI G4.

He is responsible for planning, directing, and ensuring the implementation and establishment of world-class manufacturing (WCM)/ business excellence practices for process improvements, IMS (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 OHSAS 18001, ISO50001) and its integration.

Hemant Kumar Padhiari has done his BE-civil engineering, MTech-environmental engineering and Ph.D. from IRMA, Anand. He teaches courses on strategic management, corporate environmental strategy, and strategy for BOP markets. He has worked on consultancy projects namely the State of Panchayats for Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GOI; Mid-term appraisal of 11th five-year plan, Goa and disaster management plan for Government of Goa.

Giridhar is an experienced professional in the domain of Agri-commodities sourcing, trading, and processing. He has also worked in materials management with hands-on experience in warehousing, inventory management, procurement, purchase planning and have put in considerable years into global sourcing of Agri-commodities, handling multi-locational sourcing, foraying into backward integration and moving closer to the source. He began working on sustainable sourcing six years back and is now heading the world wide sustainable sourcing efforts for Griffith foods. He is running several sustainability projects for Rainforest Alliance Certification and also has considerable expertise in food safety.

Divya has a Ph.D. in area of CSR and an MBA in Human Resource Management. Currently, she is elected representative of developing countries in the ISO 26000 strategic advisory group, and as a drafting committee member, she was a key contributor to ISO 26000. Her areas of expertise are CSR, organization behavior and management thought. She has authored a book on management education and has many research papers to her credit. She conducts corporate training and MDPs and has done capacity building programs for many national and international organizations of repute. She is also a Fellow, LEAD-India (Leadership for Environment and Development). As a management expert, she has worked at a grass-root level with some of the well-known social and non-governmental organizations.

Dipti is a certified lead auditor for EMS (ISO 50001), EMS (ISO 14001), Certified GHG Accountant (ISO 14064), and CII-certified Sustainability Assessor. She has broad experience in the domain of business sustainability; energy and environmental management; planning, designing, and execution of network augmentation proposals. Presently she is responsible for the development and execution of programs to promote energy efficiency and energy conservation practices within the company and for consumers; environmental management programs environmental initiatives within the company and in the public domain; corporate GHG emission inventory mapping and the action plan for mitigation. Instrumental in designing and executing consumer awareness campaigns and conducting seminars on energy and environmental management issues.

Data analysis to form corporate sustainability goals, business continuity plans and strategies.

Management representative for all management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, SA 8000, ISO 17025 RJC

Plan supplier audits, supplier development program and evaluation of supply chain for risks.

Stipulating environmental conditions, discharges/emission limits in issuing environmental permits for sound environmental management

Risk management for the entire business

Handling compliances related to HR and EHS

Sustainability reporting as per GRI G4 guidelines

Ashwini is a post graduate in economics from Calcutta University and an MBA in rural marketing (gold medalist) from FMS-IRM. He is a certified researcher from University of Illinois, and a certified master trainer from Pearson, UK. His expertise lies in conducing impact assessments, developing strategies for private sector participation and establishing agribusinesses. Has an experience of working in more than 15 states of India and Bangladesh and has supported several bilateral projects aided by The World Bank, IFAD, DFID, JICA, Corporates, INGOs etc.

Ashish is a Sustainability professional having 17 years of work experience with Organizations like Aditya Birla Group (ABG), Cement Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Sanghi Ind. Ltd, (Cement Div.). He has joined ABG in 2007 and has worked as a sustainability professional with different businesses of ABG which includes UltraTech, Chemicals, Fertilizers Insulators (CFI) business. Presently he is working with Hindalco Industries Limited of ABG since Jul 17. Addition to the sustainability profession he has experience in the field of Environment, Cement Process, Quality, Operational Business Excellence both at the corporate level and manufacturing locations.

Ashish has played a key role in implementing the Sustainability framework, developing the first Sustainability Report as per GRI guidelines implementing a mechanism to capture Scope 1, 2, 3 GHG emissions at the CFI business of ABG. Presently, in Hindalco, he is involved in implementing Sustainability Technical Standards and various sustainability projects. Some of the projects are valued from waste, projects on zero liquid discharge, materiality identification, strengthening stakeholder engagement, etc.

Project management control of greenfield/brownfield mining projects

Outsourcing and contract management

Management of uncertainty, complexities risks in projects business excellence

Operation and maintenance of coal mines

Transformation of medium small-scale enterprises

Organization building through learning development

SAP implementation across the organization

Arvind has more than 20 years of experience in working with a variety of industry sectors including bulk drug pharmaceutical, large electronic FMCG food companies.

He is responsible for all legal compliances of environment, health safety, and sustainability reporting of three units (biscuits, snacks chocolate) of ITC Foods Division, Haridwar. He is a certified lead auditor of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and possesses broad experience of audit and training in these management systems. His educational qualifications include M. Tech. in environmental engineering and post-diploma in industrial safety.

Provide subject matter expertise to the business in the area of sustainability including integrated management systems

Drive sustainability initiatives in line with Aditya Birla Group sustainability policies, technical standards guidance notes

Ensure employee engagement in sustainability initiatives ensure embedding of sustainability into the various functions

Facilitate disclosure on sustainability initiatives through BRC reports, GRI G4 BRR

Aligning corporate balance score card to departments for strategic decision making

Lead Higg index (sustainability assessment matrix designed by Sustainable Apparel Coalition for apparel and footwear manufacturer and retailers internationally) across MFL for brands, own and outsourced facilities. Evaluating brands, facilities and suppliers for their sustainability performance\

Project and financial management for various initiatives across department

Business excellence assessor Aditya Birla Excellence framework CII

Karthik Kumar provides subject matter expertise to the business in the area of sustainability. He is responsible for driving sustainability initiatives in line with ABG sustainability policies, technical standards guidance notes, ensuring employee engagement in sustainability initiatives, embedding sustainability into the various functions and facilitating disclosure on sustainability initiatives through BRC reports, GRI G4 and BRR.

Krishnanand Mavinkurve has twenty-one years of experience in health, safety, environment quality at national & international locations including exposure in project construction in refineries, steel plants, jetty, oil gas, power plants, electrical and rock roller bit and manufacturing setup. He has six years of experience in facilities planning, plant engineering, and maintenance. He was the Sustainability Head at Essar Projects Presently he is working with Adani Ports as Head of OHS for port operations, projects, and logistics.

Yogesh Chandra has worked in Indian Oil Corporation for 33 years as General Manager (HR). His portfolio comprised of strategy, LTP, negotiations, settlements, legal matters, compliances, policies, welfare, industrial relations, manpower planning, compensation, liaison, clearances, separation benefits, administration, security, safety, HRD activities and learning development. He has worked for 2 years in automobile sector and 1 year in engineering sector as HR Head.

Vishal Agarwal is responsible for giving strategic inputs to senior management on sustainability, community initiatives and public relations, process and improvement initiatives for effective delivery of community initiatives, liasoning with different stakeholders, compliance to sustainability parameters specifically social initiatives and stakeholder engagement. He is also involved in aligning business goals and PR for business reputation branding, developing communication strategies with internal and external stakeholders, convergence with existing players for designing large scale programs, strengthening internal and external communication, improving stakeholder perception and branding.

Vineet Sharma is responsible for developing a strategic plan and producing Annual Sustainability Report based on GRI G3.1/G4 Guideline, preparation of BRR, Corporate Social Responsibility Report, 4P (Planet, People, Product Profit) strategic approach for management discussion analysis report and energy conservation initiatives pertaining to Directors Report, part of RIL Annual Report, preparation of the Integrated report (six capital approach) based on IIRC framework, tracking the sustainability updates and preparing monthly newsletters for internal stakeholders. Single point contact for sustainability issues at RIL, handling 12 manufacturing site locations. Single point contact for GRI WBCSD as a member. Single point contact for preparation of CSR/Sustainability Awards application for RIL, driving coordination for the online Annual Report & Sustainability Report (HTML version) for RIL, responding/internal study of CDP questionnaire, Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Sushama Oza is Director, Strategy Sustainability at Adani Foundation, Ahmedabad. She was also the CEO of Adani Foundation from May 2007 to October 2014 and has been heading the CSR for Adani conglomerate for more than eight years. She has represented the organization at many national and international fora. Ms. Oza has over 33 years of experience in the development field, out which 16 years have been as head of the organization in India and USA. She has strategized and spearheaded projects in sectors of primary health care, sustainable livelihood development, rural sports and rural infrastructure. In the span of her long career she has groomed a large number of development professionals as well as volunteers.

Srinivasa is Head of the department, promoting environment sustainability at the apex level. He is an environmental engineer with 18+ years of experience in the field of environment management at industries (chemical, pharma, foundry forge automobile), promoting environment activities across suppliers, dealers, logistics operations, etc. He has expertise in safety health management, sustainability projects, sustainability reporting, afforestation, eco-CSR activities. He is an ISO 14001 lead auditor & certified sustainability assessor sustainability assurance practitioner. He has undergone training pertaining to green building, green co-rating, EIA, and GRI G4 reporting guidelines.

Having graduated in Energy Engineering from IIT Kharagpur with Solar Photovoltaics as a final year project, Shibojyoti Dutta completed MBA (Finance) in 1998 while working. He is a Climate Change Champion of Tata group companies, Lead Auditor in ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. He has worked in Energy Management for more than 14 years with the Steel Authority of India. Having joined SAIL in 1991 as Management Trainee, he was promoted 4 times to the position of Senior Manager in 2004. He left SAIL in 2005 to join Tata Steel and Initially worked as Head of Expert Group (Energy & Utilities) between 2005-2010. Being proficient in Energy Management with over 14 years of industrial experience is key to contribute to the field of Climate Change mitigation. He led Tata Steel to be the highest rated steel company globally in CDP (CDLI = 100 in CDP 2015 Climate Disclosure program). His expertise in fuel and combustion has been utilized by Tata Steel by engaging in high-level Incident Investigation(s) for the establishment of the sequence of event(s), determination/validation of root cause, and development of action plan for avoiding recurrence in future. He is a member of the Energy Management sub-committee (MED39) of the Bureau of Indian Standard and worked on programs/projects of the Indian Institute of Metals, Worldsteel Association, CDP Carbon Disclosure Project and CII CESD.

Selva Kumar is a Civil Engineer with 13 years of experience in quality control field. He is a TUV India certified Lead Auditor for QMS (ISO 9001:2008), OHSAS (18001:2007), Certified Internal Auditor for EMS (ISO 14001:2004) and Social Accountability (SA 8000: 2008) Standard.

With a Master’s degree in Political Science and seventeen years of working experience with leading organizations such as Rio Tinto, Development Alternatives, and collaborative projects with UNICEF, UNDP and World Bank, Santosh Pathak is now working with TATA Sustainability Group as Programmer Leader for TATA Uttarakhand Program. In the past assignments, he has successfully delivered sustainable community projects on water, education, health & nutrition, women empowerment, and community institution building. For wider outreach of the initiatives, he developed communication strategies for a wide range of external and internal stakeholders. Also been part of key socio-economic studies to form a firm base for strategic planning.

Work experience of Sanjay Kumar Gupta includes the operation of ammonia plant designed by Haldor Topsoe, Denmark Inc., pre-commissioning, commissioning GTR of ammonia plant at Indo Gulf Fertilizers (IGF), Jagdishpur and Textiles unit of ABG at Bhiwani to promote the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) & TQM practices at GBTL Bhiwani. Lead the team and successfully handled for planning, directing, and ensuring the implementation and establishment of World Class Manufacturing (WCM)/ business excellence practices for process improvements, management representative of IMS (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 OHSAS 18001) at IGF. He has also involved in the award process on-site examination of Excellence in Consistent TPM Commitment by JIPM, Deming Application Prize by JUSE, Chairman Business Excellence, and WCM Awards of ABG, IMC-RBNQA Award, and The Economic Times – India Manufacturing Excellence Awards in partnership with Frosts & Sullivan. Facilitating the WCM Subcommittee leaders to drive subcommittee activities, autonomous and planned maintenance activities, Basic Condition Evaluation for abnormality free workplace, to promote the TQM World Class Manufacturing practices across the organization. Business and Operational Excellence Assessor in Aditya Birla Group. He has also assessed of IMC RBNQA Awards, The Economic Times IMEA Awards, and the sustainability coordinator to drive the sustainability activities at GBTL.

Sandeep Shrivastava has more than 26 years of experience in working with industry in a variety of industry sectors including power, chemicals, automobiles, cement, etc. He is presently the Head – Environment Sustainability of Ambuja Cements Limited, looking after the environment, climate change, and corporate sustainability. Earlier he had worked with government regulatory body -Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the industry association -Confederation of Indian Industry as well as a leading power company. In his current role, he is responsible for sustainability initiatives as well as the annual sustainability report of the company. He is also the convener of the Corporate Sustainability Committee. He is a certified lead auditor of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001and possesses huge experience of audit and training on these management systems. He is also a recipient of Fulbright Fellowship under Indo-American Environment Leadership Award for study in the US and had traveled for many overseas assignments. He is a member of CHD 34 (BIS), National Council on Climate Change (CII), Committees on Environment (CII), Advisory Committee on Business and Biodiversity, Water Mission (FICCI). He has done a Master in Environment Engineering (M.E.) and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (B.E.), Diploma in Environmental Law, and PG Diploma in Operations Management.

Ravi is responsible for sustainability reporting, CDP reporting, environmental clearances (greenfield brownfield) projects, environmental compliances, internal audits, internal reporting such as EMR, PEP, PDP, GMR, etc. CO2 reporting, an online monitoring system for emissions effluents, emissions control systems, online reporting of emissions effluents, MIS of company environmental performance, and capacity building.

Rameshwar Ture is an independent researcher. He has completed a PhD in human resource management with a focus on pro-environmental behaviors. His research focus is corporate environmentalism, sustainable behaviors & corporate social responsibility.

Work experience of Raju Agrawal includes integration, environment audit at Tata Steel Indian operation sites, corporate sustainability reporting on the environment, tracking of environmental legal compliances, guidance & assistance to out-location sites on environmental issues, technical support in the development of approval applications and reports and training on environmental management legislation.

Rahul Jain is responsible for EHS activity at the Haridwar packaging unit of ITC. He is responsible for sustainability reporting and is a Lead Auditor for EMS and OHSAS as well as Radiological Safety Officer for nucleonic gauges

Prasad has 17 years of work experience in the developmental sector. He has worked in NGOs, research institutions & corporate sector with expertise in sustainable CSR models. His key strengths include MIS and developing monitoring mechanisms. Strong expertise in program planning, designing, budgeting, execution

Pradeep Manoor is a Chemical Engineer, with 25 years of experience in power plant, environmental management, statutory compliance, water treatment and effluent recycling plant.

Work experience encompasses 14 years in textiles operations, overseeing the process, quality, maintenance, production planning. 12 years in facilitating business excellence activities across various organizations of Aditya Birla Group. Presently spearheading the implementation team at the domestic textile units of the Group. Facilitating the sustainability initiatives at the domestic units as well since the last couple of years. Instrumental in many employee engagement activities, like problem-solving and Lean Six Sigma initiatives. Business and Operational Excellence Assessor in Aditya Birla Group and CII Exim Bank Award.

Peddanna R. is BE Mechanical Engineer & MBA (Operation Management) His work experience is in the areas of operation, commissioning, construction, erection, engineering performance monitoring, performance & guarantee to test of thermal power plants. Presently head of technical services and operation services for 4x30MW, 2x130MW, and 1x130MW and 1x100MW thermal power plant. He is responsible for commissioning & execution of BTG package of 4×300 MW thermal power plant-like structure, pressure parts, ESP, APH, ducting & critical piping, etc., supplied by SEC, China. Ex. Board Member of Boiler Operation Engineers Examination Board of Govt. of Karnataka and is a certified BOE Engineer from the Director of Factories and Boiler, Karnataka. Management Representative from ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, ISO14001, and ISO50001. Certified Energy Auditor from Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)

P.S.S. Ganesh has worked in various companies like Madura Coats, Ashok Leyland group, and MRF Ltd. before joining Tata Steel, Jamshedpur in the year 1998. At present, he is working as Chief, Merchant Mill, Tata Steel. Experience gained in the areas of maintenance and commissioning in tyre industry, steel industry, and operations in galvanizing & finishing lines of cold rolling complex, wire rod mill, and rebar mill. He is an Internal Auditor for TQM initiatives like daily management, TPM, PSTA (problem-solving and task achieving). He is Green Belt certified and has worked as a team member in the Deming, Deming Grand prize and TBEM assessment.

Experience of Milind Raje ranges from project management and implementation to quality assurance and manufacturing, product sales, marketing and business development, commodity marketing and concept selling, policy advocacy and market promotion.

Manivannan Rajan’s work experience ranges from the project, technical, and management consulting to management systems audits and assessments. His areas of specialization and interest include corporate strategy, sustainability, business excellence, strategic cost management, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, energy & environmental management, and supply chain management. He has handled a number of assignments in the above areas in manufacturing industries, chemical process industries, mining, and metallurgical industries, energy (oil gas, and thermal power), and engineering (incl. automobiles & auto components).

Krunal Negandhi has multi-disciplinary experience working in large corporates for over 20 years in the horizontal functions of sustainability, business strategy and corporate affairs and vertical functions of operations including environment management. He has deep passion for sustainability and is proficient in the use of tools such as innovation, business excellence framework and systems driven approach. Currently he is heading the department of Environment Sustainability at Lavasa Corporation Ltd. & Steiner India Ltd.

Keerthi has diverse experience covering management systems- ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 50001, ISO 55001, ISO 22000, ISO 22001, ISO 31000, IS 14489, SA 8000, ISO 26000, ISO 20121 and American Welding standards, consultancy provided over 16 years in more than 100 companies for various standards. Her technical work includes water audit- the hydro-geological study of aquifers & rainwater harvesting plan, safety audit, energy audit, carbon footprint, biodiversity assessment, hygiene audits, risk assessment, ergonomic study, risk assessment controls, legal audits, sustainability training & assessment and technical training. She developed Green Nurturing Program for Karnataka State Pollution Control Board were 100 schools and 20 industries networked for the making green schools. She is involved in a review of CSR strategies at companies and consulted organizations pan India and abroad with Nathan & Nathan consultants & operated from the consulting organization Nathan Centre for technology service for a decade as its Chief Executive.

H S Dua recently retired as Associate Vice President-HR and CSR from Chemicals Business of SRF Limited after 33 years of service in different capacities at various locations. He has wide-ranging work experience in HR and CSR. Under the CSR/ sustainability portfolio, he has been closely associated with the company’s unique initiative of watershed-based Natural Resource Management project to promote livelihood options for the rural poor and the ecological balance under a successful model of Business-NGO partnership.

Hitesh Sharma is the National Manager-CSR Environment of RICOH in India with the key responsibility of leading sustainability integration to business excellence and managing corporate citizenship programs. He has a professional work experience of over 10 years. As a B.E. (Computers Science), he started his professional career at Infosys Ltd. in 2005 where he worked on diverse areas of sustainability over 7 years. He co-authored a paper on Green IT and issue briefs on sustainability which got published in journals and got acknowledged by research studies of institutions of global repute. He has also served on the CSR panel of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)-Karnataka for two years between 2010-2012. He has spoken at various sustainability forums, some of the recent being – National Seminar (3rd Nov 2015): Delhi to Paris: Corporate Vision on Climate Change, India Sustainability Standards International Dialogues Conference 2015 (18-20 Nov 2015) and 6th Asia Forum of UN-PRME as held at Goa (26-28 Nov 2015). He is an Ambassador-India of OneYoungWorld, a global youth forum under the counseling of an elite panel. He represented the youth of India as a delegate to the United Nations climate change conference held at Copenhagen in 2009. As a member of the Leaders group of People Matter project of World Business Council for Sustainable Development, he has been accredited to attend and share thought leadership at the UN climate change conferences COP18-Qatar (2012), COP17-Durban (2011), COP16-Cancun (2010). He was also accredited as a delegate on Business and Industry major group convened by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to the global summit of Rio+20 in 2012. In addition to being selected as one among the Brightest Young Climate Leaders by Hindustan Times and British Council in 2010, he has received various awards and accolades from organizations of repute such as the UNEP, WWF, and sorts. Profiled as a Green Warrior on the cover story of Business Today magazine in Sep 2010, he has featured in national and international print and visual media.

Prior to Maruti Suzuki, Hem Tewari worked with Gujarat Gas Company Limited (A British Gas Group Company), Hazira LNG and Port Project (A JV of Shell and Total), in the CSR domain for around 4 years. He served the communities at grass-roots level for over 16 years through NGOs like World Wide Fund for Nature-India, Foundation for Ecological Security and Brooke Hospital for animals at various geographies.

Hardik Vara has close to a decade of experience in Sustainability, CSR, Corporate Communications, and Chemical Engineering. His key strengths are in triple bottom line accounting, integrating strategic sustainability programs, measuring benchmarking sustainability, supply chain sustainability, impact assessment, executing comprehensive communication plans for stakeholder engagement. His expertise is in computing corporate sustainability protocol index, community satisfaction index, social responsibility index, self-help group index, volunteering satisfaction index, and communication effectiveness index. He is responsible for developing relationships with stakeholders including organizations like CII, FICCI, IFC to implement sustainability programs which balance competing needs of the triple bottom line, academic interfacing and use of non-traditional modes of communications viz., theatre for organizational internal communication

Gurmit Singh has worked at various positions and functions like maintenance, operation and training. He received B.Tech from IIT Kanpur in Mechanical, MTech from NIT, JSR, and MBA through a correspondence course from Sikkim Manipal. He has experience in business assessment in TBEM, DAP, and DGP and is currently heading a department as Chief responsible for producing 3.3 million tons of steel per annum.

GS Baveja has extensive work experience of 12 years in the power sector, intense work experience of about 14 years in oil gas sector at the refinery and its projects, top management level experience of around 12 years and lastly as a corporate Entity Head of health, safety environment of large multi-location corporate viz., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. His consultancy OHSE audit experience comprises of more than 100 audits undertaken directly or through consultancy firms. He is a qualified Sustainability Report Assurer has worked with DNV, HSE Consultant/ Advisor with M/s KPMG, Saga Global Consultants, etc. GS Baveja is engaged as a speaker/ visiting faculty for various training programs in India by Indian Institute of Petroleum Energy Studies, IBC, ICWG, Saga Global, TISS, etc., and abroad by Saga Global, India; Marcus Evans, Malaysia; UE Tech, Abu Dhabi/Dubai; KRCS, Abu Dhabi, etc.

Debdoot Mohanty is Head, CSR Jharkhand and New Projects (Tata Steel) and Hony, Secretary, Tata Steel Rural Development Society since 2008 – a society promoted by Tata Steel in the year 1979 He was the first Executive Director and Secretary, CILI (Collectives of Integrated Livelihood Initiatives) – a society promoted to work in Central India tribal belt by Sir Ratan Tata Trust 2006-2008. He has around 22 years of experience in the field of institution development, natural resources management, marketing of agricultural produce, project funding and technical support to NGO working in central India tribal belt and largely in the field of implementation of rural development projects in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. He is the co-author of the book LOGFID (Logical Framework for Institutional Development) and has worked intensively in organizational development, perspective planning and training programmer for NGOs, development professionals and corporate executives.

Cadavasal S Kumar is a Champion, Mentor and Facilitator of process excellence, sustainability and total quality management with a proven track record across a spectrum of Industries like infrastructure, educational and healthcare institutions. A post-graduate in Power System from IIT and TQM, he is a certified lead assessor for Sustainability Awards of CII. He has around Forty-seven years of experience in industry/ power sector having a variety of responsibilities both in India and abroad, from design engineering, project management, total quality management and business excellence – two decades each with Tata Group of Companies and Wartsila India, a Finnish multinational. Over the period of his association with CII since 90 on various assessments for Excellence, he has been active in the sustainability domain since 2010 through CII-ITC Sustainability Award process. Credited with over 150 assessments for various Business Process Excellence Models, he is passionately involved in spreading the message of Sustainable Business based on triple-bottom line approach through excellence in business processes supported by corporate ethical governance. The spectrum of his professional association includes RPG group companies, A V Birla, Piramal, Tata group, NTPC, BHEL etc., to name a few. He also works in tandem with PwC and DNV on specific assignments and IEEMA as Chairman-Quality Cell.

B Rameshkumar has over 25 years of professional experience in construction, infra, project, and service sectors.; He has led and worked in Budgeting, Accounting, Job Costing, Activity-based Costing, MIS, multi-location sourcing, and applying for; project, HRM, Inventory, and supply chain. His work includes Corporate OD strategy and tactical operation level implementation, Process excellence in sustainability, Lean management Process, ISO Process, and compliance. He is an honorable advisor and voluntarily contributed to the development of water management NGOs. He is CII Certified Assessor in Sustainability & Lean (5s) and CAMI Certified Executive and Life Coach. His area of specialization is assessing and coaching the business process and excellence process.

Ashok Kumar Jain has worked with Hindustan Zinc Ltd. for more than 34 years in key senior and middle management positions such as Corporate Head Environment (Operations), Location Head PMP HZP Plant, Unit Head Zinc Smelter, Head EOHS, Head Process, Head Operations, Head Maintenance, SBU Head and Engineer InCharge – Mines. He recently worked as General Manager & Corporate Head- Safety, and Sustainability (July 13 to July 15), spearheading all key initiatives pertaining to safety sustainability, led a multi-million-dollar company-wide engagement with DuPont for 4 years, instrumental in creating awareness on sustainability across different units. He was responsible for the implementation of the Vedanta sustainability framework, which is in alignment with IFC and ICMM Guidelines. He is also a speaker at various forums, conferences, and workshops on industrial sustainability, safety, and the environment.

Arup Mukhopadhyay takes a lead role in governance & integration under Group Safety & Operation Risk (S&OR) to integrate & consolidate all business processes and to lead multiple Continuous Improvement (CI) programs and CI projects, develop skill set and to deploy Performance Improvement Cycle (PIC) across all hydrocarbon handling facilities and other business groups and act as Six Sigma Master Black Belt to develop CI Coaches and Six Sigma Black Belts & Green Belts.

Arun Maheshwari is responsible for overall monitoring of various systems and associated equipment & responsible for efficient plant operation, analyze for deviations, if any, in various operating parameters including unit tripping, various events leading to loss of generation, preparation of daily, monthly & yearly performance reports, conducting various performance tests, co-ordinate commissioning/re-commissioning activities of a new system or equipment during plant overhaul and energy management activity in the plant.

Anoop Srivastava is responsible for environment management through the implementation of environmental policies guidelines under the applicable acts, rules regulations and supporting senior management in developing future environmental strategies taking into account changing business environment and stakeholder needs, implementation of environmental management through the development of EMS: ISO-14001, ensuring environmental regulatory compliance- identifying the BAT, projects in steel plant and its implementation, facilitate senior management in advocacy, communication of the environmental policy and strategies across the organization for its uniform understanding & implementation, addressing stakeholder concerns regarding sustainability issues and environmental clearances.

Anju Tyagi is a certified Lead Auditor for ISO/TS 16949: 2009, ISO 14001: 2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007. Her work involves monitoring and coordinating internal & external audits and assessment in domain units, operational MIS compilation and analysis of all the units of this domain, system change communication and implementation across the domain, supplier up-gradation strategy and its implementation across the domain and monitoring reviewing improvement activities (CFT, TPS, Improvement projects, QCC).

Ajay Simha’s work experience ranges from environmental governance & policy to project planning & management, training & communications, stakeholder engagement & eco CSR to energy management, strategic sustainability planning & reporting, safety management and legal liaison & compliance management.

Work experience of Abhishek Gupta ranges from production, R&D in polymer, tech services, life cycle assessment, carbon & water footprinting to responsible care, value to waste, solar PV projects, green bricks project, safety software project, strategy, natural capital and biodiversity, eco-services, green packaging solutions, biomass, biogas, simulation projects, green manufacturing index, materiality assessment and energy-efficient buildings.