Event Speakers
Meet Our Speakers
Chandra Bhushan
President and CEO, International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (IFOREST)
Jugal Borah
Director (Technical), Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL)
Vinay Ranjan
Director, Personnel and Industrial Relations, Coal India Limited (CIL)
Deepak Arora
Vice President, NAYARA Energy, Governing Body Member, Centre for Responsible Business
Aboli Sunil Naravane
IAS, District Collector and District Magistrate, Jharsuguda, Odisha
Dr. Satish Agnihotri
IAS (Retd.) Former Independent Board Member, CIL and Former Professor, IIT Bombay
Renu Chaturvedi
General Manager, CSR, Coal India Limited (CIL)
Dr. Naresh Tyagi
Chief Sustainability Officer, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd.
Nikesh Raj
Social and Environment Program Manager - Sustainability, H&M
Dr. Manish Pande
Director & Head of Project Analysis and Documentation Division (PAD Division), Quality Council of India (QCI)
Sudipto Dey
Senior Business Journalist, Outlook Business
Chandrima Chatterjee
Secretary General, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
Manish Ranjan
ESG Practitioner, India Geo Sustainability SWAT Lead, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Aloka Majumdar
Managing Director, Global Head of Philanthropy & Head of Sustainability, HSBC India
Anil Bhardwaj
Secretary General, Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME)
Mukesh Gulati
Executive Director, Foundation for MSME Clusters
Dr. Aparna Dhawan
Head & Senior Counsellor - QMS, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)
Dr. Nimish Shah
Director, Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)
Dr. Megha Joshi
VP, Q&Q Research Insights
Rajnikant Prasad
Chief Executive Officer, UPPRO (State level Federation of FPOs of Uttar Pradesh )
Vishalakshi Padmanabhan
Executive Director, PGS Organic Council and Board Member, Buffalo Back Consumers Federation
Laurent le Danois
Team Leader, Cooperation Section, Delegation of the European Union to India & Bhutan
William Speller
Program Manager, UN Environment Program
Sarang Vaidya
Co-Founder, Go4Fresh
Dr. Subhasis Ray
Professor, Marketing, Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur
Anshuman Das
Lead Expert – Agroecology and Food Systems, Welthungerhilfe
Ranjeeb Sarma
Chief Executive Officer, Alliance of Cotton & Textile Stakeholders on Regenerative Agriculture
Prof. L S Shashidhara
Director and Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
Dr. Madhuri Nanda
Director – South Asia, Rainforest Alliance
Rajat Batra
Chief Executive Officer, Stenum Asia Sustainable Development Society
Parvinder Singh
Founder-Director of the Global Alliance for Textiles Sustainability Council (GATS) and Aadi Sustainability Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Sonia Parashar
Secretary General, Federation of European Business in India (FEBI)
Prof Pawan Budhwar
Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor International Aston University
Elaine Mitchell-Hill
International Lead Design for Freedom, Grace Farms Foundation
Jayahari KM
India Country Coordinator Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), India
S Vijay Kumar
Distinguished Fellow TERI
Prof Ananthapadmanabhan K
University of Cincinnati
Dr.Suresh Motwani
Solidaridad
Ajanta Dey
Joint Secretary & Program Director Nature Environment and Wildlife Society
Payal Kanwar
Director General, Indo-French Chamber of Commerce & Industry (IFCCI)
Sashidhar Vempala
Chief Sustainability Officer, Hindustan Unilever Limited
Prof. Taruna Gautam
Vice Chancellor IILM University, Greater Noida
Dr. Sangeeta Mansur
Founder-catalyst Bhairavi Business & Consultancy
Dr. Meghajit Shijagurumayum
Post-doctoral Fellow, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Dr. Suresh Gairola
FSC India Director FSC Global Development GmbH
Manfred Max Bergman
Professor of Social Research and Methodology and Director of Social Transitions Research, University of Basel, Research Councilor, Swiss National Science Foundation, and International Advisor, CRB
Cristina Larrea
Director, Agriculture, Food and Sustainability Initiatives International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Richard Howitt
Former Member of European Parliament
Vidya Rangan
Director, Policy and Engagement ISEAL Alliance
Allan Jorgensen
Head, OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct
Karin Kreider
Executive Director, ISEAL Alliance
Shombi Sharp
UN Resident Coordinator in India
Ambassador Hervé Delphin
Delegation of the European Union to India and Bhutan
Lara Wolters
Member of European Union (Rapporteur of the EU CSDDD)
Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan
Co-Chairperson, CRB; Professor, IIM Bangalore
R. C. Kesar
Chairperson, , Centre for Responsible Business
Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee
Former Secretary, Government of India and Senior Adviser, Centre for Responsible Business
Nandini Sharma
Director, Centre for Responsible Business
Devyani Hari
Senior Director, Centre for Responsible Business
Rijit Sengupta
Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Responsible Business
Ajay Vir Jakhar
Chairperson, Bharat Krishak Samaj
Franck Viault
Minister Counsellor, Head of Cooperation, EU Delegation to India and Bhutan
Arun Maira
Former Member, Planning Commission, Government of India