Speakers

Tejasvi Surya

MP

Amitabh Kant

Former G20 Sherpa and former CEO

NITI Aayog

D Thara

Additional Secretary

MoHUA

Amit Prothi

Director General

CDRI

Debolina Kundu

Director

NIUA

Anant Tiwari

Deputy Vice President

Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance, K M Dastur Reinsurance Brokers

Kailash Gahlot

MLA

Nitin Akade

President

Clean Energy Access Network

Leila Surratt

Director of 

Strategic Partnerships, WRI

Mr Gokul T G

Addl. General Manager

KMRL

Sivasankari TP

Founder & MD  

AR4 Tech

Suman Chandra, IAS

Director

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India

Jamshyd Godrej

Chairman and Managing Director

Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd

Madhav Pai

CEO

WRI India

Noushad Sharafudeen

Executive Engineer

KSEB

K Premkumar

Scientist

ANERT

D B Srinivas

VP

DIMTS

Vikram Kotru

Additional Director & Head - Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability

FICCI

Dhiraj Nayyar

Chief Economist

Vedanta Limited

Sudhendu Jyoti Sinha

Advisor (IC&EM)

NITI Aayog

Roli Agarwal

Head (Product Partnerships) - 

Google India

Abhishek Gupta

Head-International, Strategy, Rooftop Solar, Appliances, PE&A

EESL

Dr Soma KP

National facilitator

MAKAAM

Pankaj Bhushan

Environmental Engineer

Nagar Nigam Agra , Agra

Dr. Shiv Kumar

DG

ITS India

Ruchira Shukla

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Synapses VC

Abolee Muranjan

Program Manager

Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India

Aparna Subramani, IAS

CEO & Chairperson

GRIT

Raghuvendra Kumar

General Manager

Jalkal, Gorakhpur 

Brajesh Kumar Sinha

Head - People and Processes

Fourth Partner Energy

Dr Vandana Vasudevan

Author of OTP Please! Online Buyers, Sellers and Gig Workers in South Asia

Centre for Social and Economic Progress 

Dr Abhishek

Manager

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

Harinarayanaraj W R

Chief Executive Officer - 

Construction Skill Development Council of India

Dr Manzoor Hussain Dar

Global Head

Seeds Systems, ICRISAT

Manish Srivastava

CTO

eGov Foundation

Sonakshi Tripathi

Head -Sustainability Sourcing

Nestle

Bharati Chaturvedi

Founder and Director

Chintan, Delhi

Vikram Gandotra

President - Elect

Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufactures’ Association

Nitesh Chandrakar

Sector Portfolio Manager, Urban and Waste Management

AFD ,Delhi

Sambhav Ayachi

Deputy Commissioner

Jabalpur Municipal Corporation

Yeshika Malik

Climate Change Specialist

World Bank

Namrata Ginoya

Strategic Policy Lead

Global Resilience Partnership

Nilambuj Sharan

Senior Economic Advisor  

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Government of India

Shishir Priyadarshi

President

Chintan Research Foundation

Rajesh Miglani

Senior Climate Business Specialist & Climate Anchor- South Asia

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Manoj Verma

Superintendent Engineer, ( Engg./DEMS)

Municipal Corporation of Delhi

Dr Alka Bhargava

Senior Policy Advisor

UNEP

Paramita Dutta Dey

Policy Head, Waste

National Institute of Urban Affair (NIUA), New Delhi

Avinash Kate

Deputy Municipal Commissioner

Environment and Climate Change Department, BMC

Swapnil Shukla

Nodal Officer, NCAP and Solid Waste Manager

Camille Severac

Deputy Director

Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Mini Sukumar

Member

Kerala State Planning Board

Pravin Mulay

VP, Research and Technology

Farmers for Forest

Sreyamsa Bairiganjan

Chief of Programmes

Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation

Anuradha RV

Partner

Clarus Law Associates

V.P. Jeyaseelan, IAS

Joint Commisioner (Health)  

GCC, Chennai

Gaurav Singh Sogarwal

Muncipal Commissioner

Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation, Uttar Pradesh

Shalini Agarwal, IAS

Commissioner

Surat Municipal Corporation

Sachin Chugh

Energy lead

ARUP

Dr Amrita Goldar

Senior Fellow

ICRIER

Shreekant Gupta

Visiting Senior Fellow

Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Maneesh David Singh

Director, Sustainability

PNGRB

Gopal Jagtap

Director and Co Founder  

Shristi Waste Management, Indore

Mr. Rajeev Nayyer

President

Institute of Marine Engineers (India)

Mr. Arjun Mehta

Director- Growth and Programs

GH2 India

Shivkumari Verma

Farmer

Safi Ahsan Rizvi, IPS

Advisor, National Disaster Management Authority, Executive Director

National Institute of Disaster Management

Ms. Akshima Ghate

Managing Director

RMI India Foundation

Sreshtha Singh

Project Associate  

Land Rights Vertical, SEWA

Sarbani Bose

Lead

PRADAN

Dr. Anjan Ray

Investment Partner

Navam Capital and Former Director, CSIR-IIP

Kaushik Deb

Executive Director

Energy Policy Insitute, University of Chicago (EPIC India)

Roshni Nuggehalli

Executive Director

Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action

Manvita Baradi

Founder & Director

Urban Management Centre

Ranjna Santosh Gota

Treasurer

VDVK, Salhe, Gadchiroli

Gabriel Bordado

Skills & Employability Specialist

ILO

Manabendra Saharia

Associate Professor

IIT Delhi

Shruti Narayan

Managing Director of Regions and Mayoral Engagement

C40 Cities

Ashali Bhandari

Senior Advisor –

People's Urban Living Lab, Transitions Research

Dr. Ambrish Dutta

Additional Professor, Epidemiology

Public Health Foundation of India

Purnamita Dasgupta

Chair in Environmental Economics and Head, Environmental and Resource Economics Unit

Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)

Anuja Malhotra

Policy Manager

ATREE

Lalitha Kamath

Professor & Chairperson, Center for Urban Policy and Governance

TISS

Aniruddha Brahmachari

Director – Programs,

Digital Green Trust

Dr.Priya Narayanan

Senior Programme Manager

WRI India

Venugopal Mothkoor

Senior Specialist (Energy)

NITI Aayog

Dr Alexander Fisher

Director

Indo-German Coordination on Climate Change (IKI Interface India)

Ms. Tanya Kak

Portfolio lead Climate & Environment

Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies

Gian Modgil

Team Lead

HCL ClimaForce Fund

Dr Vidhya Venugopal

Professor, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

Country Director, NIHR

Abhishek Surana, IAS

District Collector and Magistrate

Churu, Rajasthan

Kedar Sawant

Senior Portfolio Manager (Energy Transition and Water)

Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Vandana Madavi

Farmer

Ramanshu Ganguly

Associate Director –

Climate Insights, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation

Preety Bhandari

Senior Fellow

WRI India

Hemanga Deka

Scientific Officer

Assam Energy Development Agency

N. Subrahmanyam

Joint Director/Scientist D.

MoEF&CC

Pooja Yadav

Program Associate

WRI India

G Mathi Vathanan, IAS

Director General State Administrative Training Institute and Head, Centre for Good Governance

Government of Odisha

Dr Ranjitha Puskur

Principal Scientist

IRRI

Jeevan Roy

Technical Lead

FISH/ BORDA

Vijeta Ananthkumar

Manager, Research Division

National Skill Development Corporation

Dr. Swati Mahajan

Director - Health System Strengthening

PATH

Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta

Associate Director - Urban Development, Sustainable Cities

WRI India

Dr Aanchal Jain

CEO

PMI Electro Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd

Arun Goyal (IAS Retd.)

Former Member

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

Dr. Satish Gogulwar

Convener

Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi

GT Prabhakar Reddy

CTMO

BMTC

Sumedha Malaviya

Program Head, Building Decarbonisation

WRI India

Guillermo Bernal

Executive Director

The Place Institute

Anna Biswas

Managing Director - India

Forum for the Future

P. Ponram

Treasurer

Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA)

Irfan Kagzi

State Nodal Officer of NCAP

GPCB

Akhila Sivadas

Managing Trustee, Chief Functionary

Centre for Advocacy and Research

Shishir Ranjan Dash

Lead - Urban Habitat Initiatives

Tata Steel Foundation

Kalyan Verma

Senior expert – 

corporate stewardship (sustainable business), WWF India

Amit Kumar Patjoshi

CEO

Palladium India

Sahana Goswami

Senior Program Manager - Urban Water Resilience

WRI India

Dr. Virinder Sharma

Member (Technical)

Commission on Air Quality Management

Pooja Haldea

Director

Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University

Preeti Yadav, IAS

Commissioner

Jabalpur Municipal Corporation

Neha Khanna

Associate Director

CPI

Dr. V. Thiruppugazh, IAS (Retd)

Former additional Secretary

NDMA

G. Rajeswari

Nodal Person

Head ICCC GCC

Shriram Manogaran

Portfolio Manager, Data

CAF

Prof. Gufran Beig

Chair Professor

National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc

Namita Gupta

Founder and CEO

Airveda

Priyanka Sulkhlan

Co-founder & Principal

(Urban Design & Mobility), RootBridge Collab

Prof. Sagnik Dey 

Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences

IIT Delhi

Sathyanarayanan Shankaran

Urban Strategy Lead

Rainmatter Foundation

Laghu Parashar

Senior Transport Specialist

World Bank

Narayan Mishra

CTO & Co-founder

Tummoc

Naim Keruwala

Regional Director, South and West Asia

C40 Cities

Dr. Vikas Singh

Senior Scientist

CAQM

Vijay Vardhan

JGM

CMRL

Dr. Sarika Kulkarni

Founder

Raah Foundation

Nimish Singh

Fellow, Air Quality Research

TERI

Dr. Sumit Sharma

Programme Officer

UNEP

Dr. Sarath Guttikunda 

Founder and Director

Urban Emissions Info 

Dr. Abinaya Sekar

Consulting Research Fellow

Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Ute Collier

Acting Director -   

Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Raghav Dalmia

Director

Prayagraj Dyeing and Printing Mills Private Limited, Surat

Sanjiva de Silva

Counsellor - Energy & Resources

Australian High Commission

Ashwini Hingne

Associate Program Director - CEF Program

WRI India

Dr. Archana Godbole

Director

AERF

Dr. K.T. Parthiban

Professor - Department of Agroforestry

TNAU

Joyita Mukherjee

MD

CoolPact Capital

Ashwini Kumar Swain

Fellow

Sustainable Futures Collaborative

Angshuman Siddhanta

Sustainable Cold Chain Expert

UNEP

Soumya Prasad Garnaik

Country representative

GGGI

GP Hari

Former Executive

Kochi Metropolitan Transport Authority

Dr. Ashish Garg

Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Kotak School of Sustainability and Kesavan Center

IIT Kanpur

Dean Cooper

Global Energy Lead

WWF

Nidhi Gupta

Associate Director

Environmental Design Solutions (EDS)

Nidhi Madan

Director

Raahgiri Foundation

Manjunath Sekhar

Director- Sustainable Urban Mobility

GIZ

Pradeep Singal

Chairman

All India Transporters Welfare Association

Arathi Parigi

Co-founder & MD

Neuton Auto Private Limited

Dr Verchezhian VSV

State President

Laghu Udyog Bharati, MD, Shri KVS Industries, Chennai

Satarupa Bhattacharya

Director

Oorvani Foundation

Dr. Ramesh Subramaniam

Global Director - Programmes and Strategy

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Nidhi Jain

Senior Associate

Net Zero, NIUA

Shruti Goel

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Upaya Social Ventures

Dr. Soumendra Nath Kuiry

Associate Professor

IIT Madras

Jaya Dhindaw

Executive Director- Sustainable Cities and Transport

WRI India

Dr. Ruchika Singh

Executive Director, Food, Land and Water

WRI India

Pawan Mulukutla

Executive Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air & Hydrogen

WRI India

Gerald Ollivier

Lead Transport Specialist

World Bank

Anumita Roychoudhury

Executive Director

Centre for Science and Environment

Felipe A. Ramirez Buitrago

Director

Urban Mobility, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Abhilesh Babel

Executive Director

AECOM

Dr. Poornima Dore

Founder & CEO

Dorian Scale

Rana Hasan

Director

ADB

Aditi Jha

Board Director and Head of Legal and Government Affairs

LinkedIn India

Anshul Mishra

Additional Director

AIIMS

Shravan Shankar

Co-Founder

Climake

Shashishekhar Pandit

Co-founder, Chairman & Group CEO -

KPIT Technologies Ltd

Surbhi Goyal

Senior Energy Specialist

World Bank

Shweta Kulkarni

Fellow

Prayas (Energy Group)

Sudha Ramen

IFS

Member Secretary, State Planning Commission, Govt of Tamil Nadu

Neha Dhingra

Director

CLASP

Ganesh Neelam

Director

Sustain Plus

Biswarup Banerjee

Programme Manager

IKEA Foundation

Jhumki Dutta

Lead Programmes

Partners in Change

Aditya Raghwa

Head- Governments & Policy South Asia

Climate Group

Gagan Swain

CEO, Odisha Coal & Power Limited (OCPL) and Director (Finance)

Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd.

Abhishek Ranjan

SVP & CEO of

BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd

Lokendra Thakkar

Chief Scientific Officer

EPCO Madhya Pradesh

Saswati Chetia

Director

GKSPL (Greentech Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)

Dr Shailesh Agrawal

Executive Director

Executive Director - BMTPC

Rejeet Mathews

Program Director- Integrated Urban Development Sustainable Cities and Transport

WRI India

Dr. Sampriti Baruah

Program Head- Sustainable Agriculture, FLW

WRI India

Sanjay Sridhar

Advisor

UMI Fund

Dr Harshal Salve

Additional Professor

Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS

I V Rao

Distinguished Fellow

Transport & Urban Governance, TERI

Anup Patil

CEO

Intangles Lab Pvt. Ltd

Prof. Gazala Habib

Professor Department of Civil Engineering

IIT Delhi

Ashish Garde

Director

MAGIC

Shilpa Kumar

Managing Director & Head of India

British International Investment (BII)

Jagan Shah

CEO

Infravision Foundation

Amita Bhide

Professor, School of Habitat Studies

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Sandeep Paul 

Founder

The Urban Lab

Pooja Tendulkar

Co-founder

Lemnion Green Solutions Pt Ltd 

Vishwanath S.

Advisor

Biome Environmental Trust

Archana Tripathi 

CEO

Saahas 

Belkies Jeelani

Chief Town Planner

TPO Kashmir

Giriraj Amarnath

Research Group Leader, Water Data for Climate Resilience

International Water Management Institute

Dr. Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar

Urban Resilience Advisor

CDRI

Shishir Agarwal

Senior Consultant

National Disaster Management Authority

Sabareesh Suresh

Senior Specialist

TCIS, Habitat for Humanity

Aafsha Kansal

Business Development Lead at IFC

World Bank Group

Dr. Siji Chacko

Global Climate Resilience Collective

Bijal Brahambhatt

Director

Mahila Housing Trust

Saswat Bandopadhyay 

Professor

Faculty of Planning, CEPT 

Pradip Kalbar 

Associate Professor

Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (CUSE), IIT Bombay 

Kartikeya Desai

Founder & CEO

Desai & Associates

Nilesh Rajadhyaksha

Head - Climate Projects Preparation Facility

NIUA

Swati Pillai

Climate Change Analyst

World Bank

Lingaraj Dinni

Consultant

WIPRO and Head of Partnership and Built Environment Group,  LVBL Accelerator

Dulari Parmar

Project Lead - Climate Justice

YUVA

Arti Dhar

Co-Founder & Director

Farmers for Forests

Uday Narang

Founder

Omega Seiki Mobility

Arindam Lahiri

CEO

Automotive Skill Development Council

Dr Indu Murthy

Sector Head - Climate

Environment and Sustainability, CSTEP

Pratim Roy

Director

Keystone Foundation

Dr Naresh Kumar

Head and Principal Scientist

NICRA Project, ICAR-IARI

Deepak Krishnan

Deputy Program Director

Energy Program, WRI India