Connect Karo 2023 Speakers Shri Hardeep Singh Puri Honourable Minister Housing & Urban Affairs & Petroleum and Natural Gas Amitabh Kant G20 SherpaGovernment of India Jamshyd Godrej Chairman, WRI India & Chairman and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce B.V.R. Subrahmanyam CEO NITI Aayog Sarika Panda Bhatt DirectorNagarro Ravi Pandit Chairman & Co-FounderKPIT Technologies Ulka Kelkar Director Climate Program WRI India Madhav Pai CEO WRI India Rejeet Mathews Program Director Urban Development, WRI India Samrat Basak Program Director Water Resilience, WRI India Ajay Kumar Rastogi Chairman, Task Force on Sustainable Just TransitionGovernment of Jharkhand Jaya Dhindaw Interim Director, WRI India Ross Centre and Program Director Integrated Development, Planning and Resilience Pushyamitra Bhargav MayorIndore Municipal Corporation Mriganka Saxena Founding Partner Habitat Tectonics Architecture & Urbanism Romit Sen Senior Vice President Corporate Sustainability, HSBC India Dr. Himanshu Bhushan Former Advisor & Head, Public Health Administration National Health Systems Resource Center (NHSRC) M. Anilkumar MayorKochi Municipal Corporation Lalit Bohra Joint Secretary Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India Lokendra Thakkar Coordinator, SKMCCC Department of Environment, Government of Madhya Pradesh Ashish Kundra Principal Secretary-cum-Commissioner Transport, Government of Delhi Founder Prateek Tiwari Founder & CEOLiving Greens Organics Pvt. Ltd. Paresh Sharma Senior FellowWRI India Dr O.P. Agarwal Senior Advisor WRI India Sameer Shisodia CEORainmatter Foundation Mahenaw Wara Grant Manager Good Energies Foundation Adarsha Kapoor Architect and Principal Urban DesignerCreative Footprints Ajit Balaji Joshi, IAS Chief Administrator Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran Benson Ireri Africa LeadEnergy Access, World Resources Institute Challagulla Sarita SarpanchKanha GP, Telangana Dr. Joy Elamon Director General Kerala Institute of Local Administration Dr. Ke Wang Program Director PACE Jennifer Layke Global Director, Energy ProgramWorld Resources Institute Tini Tran Director, Global Communications and Engagement WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities Dr. Melissa Barbanell Director US - International Engagement, World Resources Institute Nilesh Rajadhyaksha Program Director, Urban Strategy UnitNIUA Nirmita Chandrashekar Senior Program Manager SELCO Foundation Prasanth Narayanan Program Manager (Cities) Shakti Foundation Preeti Bhatnagar Operations ManagerBasic HealthCare Services Saswat Bandopadhyay Professor, Faculty of Urban PlanningCEPT University Shahzad Alam Special Commissioner (Transport) Delhi Government Dr. Shamika Ravi Member Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister Dr. S. K. Lohia Senior Advisor World Bank and former MD & CEO, IRSDC Dr. Suddhasatwa Basu Professor (HAG) Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi Suman Chandra IAS | Deputy Secretary Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India Ajit Kumbhar IAS | Additional Municipal Commissioner Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Sujoy Ghosh Vice President & Country Managing Director - India First Solar Jagan Shah Senior Fellow Artha Global Parul Agarwala Country Programme Manager- India UN Habitat Amitabh Kundu Senior FellowWRI India S Chandrasekar Member Secretary Bihar State Pollution Control Board Devyani Hari Director Centre For Responsible Business Michiel Van Erkel Agricultural Counsellor Netherlands Embassy Champaka Rajagopal Visiting Faculty, School of Policy & Governance Azim Premji University Bharath Jairaj Executive Director Energy Program, WRI India Avinash Dubedi Program Head, Transport WRI India Prerna Mehta Associate Director Urban Development, WRI India Dr. Priya Narayanan Senior Program Manager WRI India Mirik Gogri Head of Corporate Strategy, Aarti Industries Ltd. Dr. Madhu Verma Senior Economic Adviser Iora Ecological Solutions Jagjeet Singh Sareen Principal and LeadGlobal Climate Practice, Dalberg Advisors Dr. Suvarna Chandrappagari IFS Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Hyderabad, Telangana Swapan Mehra CEO Iora Ecological Solutions Anumita Roychowdhury Executive Director Centre for Science and Environment Dr. Harry Virahsawmy Urban Water Lead Alluvium International Dr. Depinder Singh Kapur Director, Water Program Centre for Science and Environment Kavas Kapadia Former Professor School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi Hyun Hee Ban Chief, Social Policy UNICEF, New Delhi Kanak Tiwari Project Lead-Delhi Master Plan 204 NIUA Mukta Naik Fellow, Centre for Policy Research New Delhi Shankar Deshpande Chief, Town and Country Planning DivisionMumbai Metroplitan Development Authority Anand Singh Program Manager AIWASI, DFAT Rahul Sachdeva Senior Program Specialist, Water and Environment Vertical National Institute of Urban Affairs V. K. Madhavan Chief Executive WaterAid India Bijal Brahmbhatt Director Mahila Housing Trust Ritu Kataria Co-founder Corurban Foundation Manoj Gulati Regional Director South Asia, Water.org Swati Janu Founder, Social Design Collaborative Nutan Zarapkar Director WASH-RTI Athar Aamir Khan Municipal Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation & CEO, Srinagar Smart City Justin Jebakumar Director Government Relations Habitat for Humanity India Surendra Kumar Bagde IAS Additional Secretary MoHUA, Government of India Ankit Kapasi Sustainability and ESG Lead, dss+ Surya Kiran Executive Director ASRTU Satish Jain ChairmanPMI Sanyam Gandhi Director Chartered Speed Ltd. Sumit Mittal COO and Director GreenCell Mobility Himraj Dang Independent Consultant & Bus Finance Expert Laghu Parashar Senior Transport Specialist World Bank Vivek Ogra Partner (Technology) E&Y Priya Singh Co-founder & CPOChalo Dr R. K. Singh Chief General Manager SIDBI Vijay Kovvali Professor TRIP Centre, IIT Delhi Amegh Gopinath Technical Advisor Electric Mobility and Sustainable Urban Mobility, GIZ Manushi Jain Co-founder and Director Sponge Collaborative Nidhi Madan Landscape Architect Abhit Sinha Co-founder Orbo Saurabh Diddi Director Bureau of Energy Efficiency Manish Mishra Chief Regulatory Officer Tata Steel Sandeep Roy Choudhury Director VNV Advisory Tanya Kak Policy Manager J-PAL Astha Gupta India Consultant International Energy Agency Jagabanta Ningthoujam Principal RMI India Mani Khurana Senior Energy Specialist The World Bank Prasanto K. Roy Managing Director FTI Consulting Dr. Nambi Appadurai Director, Climate Resilience Practice WRI India Dr. Ruchika Singh Director, Sustainable Landscapes and RestorationWRI India Sree Kumar. K Program Director, Air Quality Action WRI India Dr. Ila Patnaik Chief EconomistAditya Birla Group Dr. Chandrani Bandyopadhyay Associate ProfessorSchool of Planning and Architecture, Delhi Vinay Harswal Lead, Water Resource SpecialistWater For People Arun Kumar Singla Chief EngineerGurugram Metropolitan Development Authority Hemalatha K Superintending EngineerBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Vishal Khanama General ManagerAhmedabad Janmarg Limited Mahesh Babu CEOSwitch Mobility Nishant Arya Vice ChairmanJBM Group Dr. Adit Chhajed Administration HeadHansa Travels Aalap Patel Deputy Commissioner of Police TrafficNew Delhi Range Rana Hasan Economic Research and Regional Cooperation DeptAsian Development Bank Dr. K.P. Krishnan Honorary Research Professor and Former SecretaryMinistry of Skill Development Bhagyashree Banayat, IAS Additional Municipal CommissionerNashik Municipal Corporation Basavaraj Kabade Chief EngineerBruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Suraj Iyengar ManagerCRISIL Apoorve Khandelwal Senior Programme Lead - Sustainable Food SystemsCEEW Dr Manish Anand Senior FellowTERI Paromita Roy Director (Housing & Urban Projects Wing)Delhi Development Authority Vidhu Gupta Associate FellowTERI Dr Nitya Sharma Program Manager - Food Loss And WasteWRI India Dr Seema Yadav Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Landscapes And RestorationWRI India Dr Jayahari KM Country CoordinatorFOLU India Pravesh Biyani Associate ProfessorIIIT Delhi Anubhav Sen Program LeadFITT, IIT Delhi Sonali Vyas Associate DirectorSafetipin Rupa Nandy HeadUITP India Hiranmay Mallick CEO & Co-founderTummoc Sonal Shah FounderThe Urban Catalysts D Thara Additional Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India Dr Devinder Dhingra Principal Scientist (Process Engineering)ICAR Prasanna Kumar Ganesh Executive Program DirectorToyota Mobility Foundation Gopalakrishnan VC Director - Automotive & EV, Industries DepartmentGovernment of Telangana Atul Jain Technical LeadChartr Shashanka Ala, IAS Special SecretaryPublic Works Department, Delhi Government Meenu Sarawgi EVP & Chief- Strategy & OperationsAutomotive Skills Development Council Dr. Saon Ray ProfessorIndian Council for Research on International Economic Relations Pawan Mulukutla Director - Integrated Transport, Electric Mobility & HydrogenWRI India Sabina Dewan President & Executive DirectorJust Jobs Network Ravi Gadepalli ConsultantWorld Bank Satya Arikutharam Independent Urban Mobility Expert Deepak Sriram Krishnan Associate Director, EnergyWRI India Srinivas Alavilli Fellow - Integrated Transport and Road SafetyWRI India Beate Langset Counsellor- Climate and EnvironmentRoyal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi Vivekanand Kotikalapudi Transport Infrastructure AdvisorGIZ Farha Irani Assistant General Manager (Town Planning)Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) Siraj Hussain, IAS (Retd.) Ex - SecretaryMinistry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Vandana Singh CEOIndia FoodBanking Network Rajiv Ranjan Mishra Chief Technical AdvisorNIUA Pratima Marwah Deputy General Manager-Landscape & ArchitectureTCE Grace Pachuau IAS Additional CommissionerIndustries & Commerce Department, Government Of Tamil Nadu Jarnail Singh Deputy DirectorMacArthur India Foundation Prajakta L Verma IAS Joint SecretaryMinistry of Textiles, Government of India Vinnie Mehta Director GeneralAutomotive Component Manufacturers Association of India Sijo John Senior Program Manager - Enterprise Development, Small, Growing Business and Employment LEADKrea University Ashwini Hingne Associate Program DirectorWRI India Prashant K Banerjee Chief Executive DirectorSociety of Indian Automobile Manufacturers of India Sujit Nair CEO & Co-founder at FIDESteward and Volunteer, Beckn Protocol Nitin Nair Senior Vice PresidentONDC Ashish Tiwari Secretary, Department of Environment, Forest & Climate ChangeGovernment of Uttar Pradesh Vikas Samant Deputy Chief Engineer, Civil - EnvironmentBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Neha Upadhyay Environment EngineerAhmedabad Municipal Corporation Dr. Arun Panda Senior FellowWRI India K. R. Jyothilal, IAS Additional Chief Secretary - PowerGovernment of Kerala Marisha Thakur Marketing Communications SpecialistRainmatter Foundation Niyati Sareen Project Director - Water and EducationHinduja Foundation Dr Anupama Shetty Mission DirectorBiocon Foundation Mahesh Rajasekhar Director - Technical Support & Capacity DevelopmentCoalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Suchismita Mukhopadhyay Lead Specialist - AdvocacyCoalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Roshan Toshniwal Associate DirectorOMI Foundation Ambrin Vice PresidentEconomic Analysis & Policy, Guidance Tamil Nadu Jaideep OSD (Urban Transport)Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Dr. D. S. Prasad ScientistCentre for Materials for Electronics Technology Kavita Sachwani Implementation Guidance Coordinator - Principles of Responsible BankingUNEP Aditya Bahadur Chair, Research Strategy Team and Principal ResearcherInternational Institute for Environment and Development V VijayVardhan GMITC Social Investments Dr. D. Somashekar Additional MHO-II, Public Health DepartmentMunicipal Corporation of Delhi Santosh Harish Program Officer, South Asian Air QualityOpen Philanthropy Mugdha Jain Country Lead, IndiaClean Air Fund Sri Harsha Kota Associate ProfessorIIT Delhi Prakash Doraiswamy Director, Air Quality ScienceWRI India Shailesh Vickram Singh FounderMassive Fund Babu Abdul Khadeer IRPS Municipal SecretaryKochi Municipal Corporation Anish Michael Lead, Centre for Future MobilityOMI Foundation Dr. Alpana Mitra General ManagerRajkot Rajpath Ltd. Swati Khanna Sr. Sector Specialist, Urban Development & MobilityKFW S Rakesh Kumar DirectorEnvironment Department, UT of Jammu & Kashmir Dr. Kamaljit Ray Sc-'G'/AdviserMinistry of Earth Sciences, Government of India Saransh Bajpai Associate Director, Climate ProgramWRI India Sridhar Easwaran HeadSamunnati Foundation Kunro Hino Representative, India OfficeJICA Girish Nagpal CEO & Co-founderMetroRide Shreyansh Shah Associate Director, Strategic AlliancesMybyk Victor Shinde Team Lead – Water and EnvironmentNIUA Olga Chepelianskaia Principal Consultant and FounderUNICITI Sudeshna Chatterjee Program Director - Sustainable Cities and Transport WRI India Mahesh Harhare Program Head - Urban DevelopmentWRI India