Connect Karo 2021 saw 30+ Sessions with 150+ Speakers Hardeep Singh Puri Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Government of India Jamshyd Godrej Managing Director and Chairman Godrej & Boyce Roopa Kudva Managing Director Omidyar Network India Aaditya Thackeray Cabinet Minister, Tourism & Environment, Government of Maharashtra and Guardian Minister Mumbai Suburban Cecilia Vaca Jones Executive Director Bernard van Leer Foundation Kailash Gahlot Hon’ble Minister (Transport) Govt. of NCT Of Delhi Suresh Prabhu 6 times MP Ex-Cabinet Minister of 10 portfolios Sowmya Reddy General Secretary All India Mahila Congress of Karnataka Satyendar Jain Minister of Health, Home, Power, PWD, Industries, Urban Development & Flood and Irrigation and Water Government of Delhi Aniruddha Dasgupta President & CEO, WRI O.P. Agarwal CEO, WRI India Kelly Larson Director, Road SafetyBloomberg Philanthropies Shri Durga Shanker Mishra Secretary, MoHUA, Government of India Madhav Pai Executive DirectorWRI India Ross Center D. Thara Joint Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs K. VijayRaghavan Principal Scientific Adviser Government of India Rajiv Ranjan Mishra Director General National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Department of Water Resources, RD & GR, Ministry of Jal Shakti Rohit Aggarwala Senior Urban Tech Fellow Cornell Tech Adriana Lobo Executive Director WRI Mexico Rogier Van Den Berg Acting Director WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities Dr. Anjlee Agarwal Chairwoman & Executive Director, Samarthyam Member of CSO-Standing Committee, NITI Aayog, Government of India Gaurav Gupta, IAS Chief Commissioner Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Priyanka Chaturvedi Member of Parliament - Rajya Sabha Deputy Leader of Shiv Sena Rana Hasan Regional Economic Advisor South Asia Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Professor Amitabh Kundu Senior Fellow Sustainable Cities and Transport program at WRI India. Swati Janu Architect and FounderSocial Design Collaborative Deepthi Ravula CEO, WE-Hub, Government of Telangana Dr K. Rajeswara Rao Special Secretary, NITI Aayog Natalie Draisin Director North American Office & United Nations Representative at FIA Foundation K R Jyothilal IAS Principal Secretary Dept. Transport of Kerala Ruchir Shukla Director Electric Mobility Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF) Anand Deshpande Senior Deputy Director ARAI, GOI Dr. N. Kalaiselvi Director CSIR-Lab CECRI - GOI Dr. T. N. Rao Director ARCI-GOI Dr. Sajid Mubashir Scientist-G DST, GOI Randheer Singh Senior Specialist- Electric Mobility, NITI Aayog Winfried Damm Program Director Indo-German Energy Program, GIZ Erika Myers e-Mobility Director, WRI Allen Tom Abraham Lead Analyst- India Southeast Asia and Australia, BloombergNEF Prof. Shivanand Swamy Director Emeritus CoE-UT Pawan Mulukutla Director Clean Mobility & Energy Tech, WRI India Gerald Ollivier Lead Transport Specialist for India Sudhendu Sinha Advisor Infrastructure Connectivity and Electric Mobility Vertical NITI Aayog Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) Chairman & Managing Director,(PRESPL) & Chairman (CBEII) Manu Dangi Chief Operating Officer, Egon Zehnder KCI M. Anilkumar Mayor- Kochi Municipal Corporation Sanjeev Kumar IAS Additional Municipal Commissioner, MCGM Marina Robles Minister of Environment Mexico City Ambassador Fernando Mello Barreto Deputy Secretary of International Relations of São Paulo Ashish Kundra, IAS Transport Commissioner Government of Delhi N. Janaiah Vice Chairman and Managing Director, TSREDCO, Government of Telangana Dr. Anjana Vyas Senior Consultant, CAG, CRDF, CEPT University Sujai Karampuri Director, IT,E&C Department, Government of Telangana Shashi Verma Director of Strategy and Chief Technology Officer, Transport for London Surendra Bagde Additional Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Sebastian Castellanos Senior Research Associate, NUMO Alliance, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Samrat Basak Director - Urban Water, WRI India Rishav Gupta, IAS CEO, Indore Smart City Rejeet Mathews Director - Urban Development, WRI India Jaya Dhindaw Director - Integrated Urban Planning, WRI India Jasmine Shah Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi, Govt. of NCT Delhi Garima Gupta, IAS Managing Director, Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation, Delhi Dario Hidalgo Independent Consultant Daizong Liu Director, WRI China Ross Center for Sustainable Cities & Communications Cigdem Corek Oztas Urban Development and Accessibility Manager, WRI, Turkey Bina Shetty Head - GeoAnalytics - Sustainable Cities And Transport, WRI India Amit Bhatt Executive Director - Integrated Transport, WRI India Dr. Ajay Nagpure Head - Air Pollution, WRI India Dr. Vinod M. Bothale Associate DirectorNational Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO Ravichandar V Civic Evangelist Meera K Managing Trustee, Oorvani Foundation Cofounder, Citizen Matters Rushda Majeed India RepresentativeBernard van Leer Foundation Pawan Kumar Singh Country Business Leader3M IndiaLimited Atsani Ariobowo Manager, Global Road Safety Projects International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Global Road Safety Partnership Eva Moldovanyi Grant Manager Fondation Botnar Agnieszka Krasnolucka-Hickman Programmes Manager FIA Foundation R K Malhotra DG, Petroleum Federation of India Mahua Acharya CEO of Convergence Energy at Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) Prof. P C Ghosh Professor, IIT Mumbai Osei Assibey Antwi Mayor of Kumasi Olga Chepelianskaia Founder UNICITIClimate Change Specialist, ADB Jayesh Ranjan Principal Secretary,Department of Commerce and Industries, Government of Telangana Priya Shankar India Director, Climate and Environment Program, Bloomberg Philanthropies Dr. N Rajalakshmi CFCT, ARCI, Chennai, DST Dr. Sameer Sharma Director-General and CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India Dr B R Ravikanthe Gowda IPS, Joint Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru Traffic Police Anuela Ristani Head - Deputy Mayor of Tirana Ajay Seth, IAS Secretary, Dept of Economic AffairsGovt of India Saurabh Kumar Executive Vice Chairperson, EESL Group at Energy Efficiency Services Limited Kalpana Vishwanath Founder, Safetipin Gil Penalosa Founder and Chair, 8 80 Cities Claudia Adriazola Director, Health and Road Safety Program WRI Sarika Panda Director, Nagarro Till Bunsen Transport Research Officer, International Transport Forum at the OECD Naveen Munjal Managing Director, Hero Electric Ravi Pandit Chairman and Co founder of KPIT Technologies Bart Beibuyck Executive Director Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking -EU Bahar Dutt Environment Journalist and FounderThe Mitti Project Tim Gill Scholar, Writer and ConsultantRethinking Childhood Milan Rai Social Practice Artist and FounderVriksha Foundation Nepal Dr. P. S. Roy Senior Fellow WRI India (Former Director, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing) Nikhil Kumar President, GeoSpatial, MapmyIndia NVS Reddy, IAS Managing Director, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited Kanchana Krishnan Senior Real Estate Professional Hariharan Chandrashekar Founder-Trustee, AltTech Foundation, Environmental Economist, Green Business Mentor, AltTech Foundation Paromita Roy Deputy General Manager, Indian Rail Stations Development Corporation Dr Anjali Mohan Partner INDE, Independent researcher and Faculty, Urban and Regional Planning, Integrated Design Nishant Arya Vice Chairman, JBM Group Dr. Nirpendra Semwal Scientist C, CPCB, Regional Directorate, Vadodara Central Pollution Control Board R.A. Rajeev Ex-commissioner, MMRDA Vinay Kumar Singh Managing Director, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) Mriganka Saxena Urban Plannner and Founding PartnerHabitat Tectonics Architecture & Urbanism (HTAU) Uma Adusumilli Ex-Chief of Regional PlanningMumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) Nilesh Rajadhyaksha Project Coordinator, Master Plan for Delhi 2041National Institute of Urban Affairs Brinda Sastry Urban Design and Planning Practitioner; Adjunct FacultyMemberRV College for Architecture, Bangalore K.R. Jyothilal, IAS Principal Secretary of Transport, KeralaGovernment of Kerala Anjum Parwez, IAS Managing Director, Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd Sudeept Maiti Head- Integrated Transport, WRI India Sue Gander Director, Electric School Bus Initiative, World Resources Institute Fernando Paéz Mendieta Urban Mobility Director, WRI México and Colombia Hephsiba Rani Korlapati, IAS Joint Managing DirectorKarnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation Paresh Sharma Senior Fellow, WRI India Prasanna Ganesh Director, Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) Mahesh Babu CEO, Switch Mobility Rahul Agarwal Vice President, Invest India Prerna Mehta Associate Director, Urban Development, WRI India Pavan Ankonapalli Lead, Urban Development, WRI India Jitendra Singh Chouhan, IAS CEO, Ujjain Smart City Tanvi Hooda, IAS Commissioner Satna Municipal Corporation and Executive Director & CEO Satna Smart City Dr. Rama Umesh Pandey Associate Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Planning, SPA Bhopal Emani Kumar Deputy Secretary General, Regional Director, ICLEI South Asia Secretariat Vaishali Nandan Head-Climate Smart Cities Project, GIZ India Tanmay Takle Policy Advisor to Ministry of Environment & Climate Change, Government of Maharashtra Mahesh Harhare Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Pune City Dharmistha Chauhan Development Consultant Archana Patankar Founder, Green Globe Consultancy, Mumbai Palash Srivastava Deputy CEO, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) Daniel Robinson Senior Urban Project Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Neha Kumar India Program Manager, Climate Bonds Initiative Lokendra Thakkar Coordinator, State Knowledge Management Centre on Climate Change, EPCO, Department of Environment, Govt. Of Madhya Pradesh Dr. Rakkee Thimothy Fellow, Center for Soco-Economic & Environmental Studies Prasanth H Chief Town Planner (Planning), LSGDA, Kerala Government Dr. N Ajith Kumar Director, Center for Soco-Economic & Environmental Studies Vidya Soundarajan Director, Ecological Foortprint & Climate finance, WWF-India Dr. Joy Elamon Director, Kerala Institute of Local Administration Suresh Hari Chairman, CREDAI Bengaluru Dr. Rajan Chedambath Director, Centre for Heritage, Environment and Development Dr. Sahana Althaf Yale School of the Environment Santhosh B M, IAS Secretary, HMDA MD, Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd Ram Reddy Vice President, CREDAI Amit Kapoor Chair, Institute for Competitiveness