About ‘India and Sustainability Standards’
‘India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogues and Conference’, is the annual flagship conference of the Centre for Responsible Business (CRB). ISS 2021 convenes international and Indian businesses, policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss, deliberate and develop roadmaps across key sustainability issues and industry sectors – in supporting the momentum towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogues and Conference (ISS) was conceptualized as a dialogue platform by CRB in 2012. ISS has received continued and overwhelming support and encouragement from Indian and international partners, standard setters, large companies, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), civil society supporters, policymakers, government agencies, media and its diverse participants. Through its dedicated engagement, ISS has evolved into a truly international multi-stakeholder dialogue platform.
Standards 2018
Standards 2017
CRB believes in the value of sustainable business principles for future oriented and purpose driven businesses. These principles must ultimately inform their strategies and operations to align with the Sustainability Agenda.
In the eighth edition of ISS, our endeavor is to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders to facilitate a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of adopting transformative pathways for societal resilience.
Videos
Key Speakers & Panelists*
Chief Guest
SHRI. SURESH PRABHU
Member of Parliament
Keynote
Prof. Mervyn King
Senior Counsel and former Judge
The Supreme Court of South Africa
Esteemed Special Guest
Jamshyd Godrej
MD,
Godrej & Boyce
Janez Potočnik
Co-Chair
International Resource Panel
Dr Sally Uren OBE
Chief Executive
Forum for the Future
Eva Zabey
Executive Director
Business for Nature
Anshu Gupta
Founder Director
Goonj
Kirti Poonia
Head
Okhai
Richard Howitt
Strategic Advisor on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Business and Human Rights
Arun Maira
Former Member - Planning Commission
Gol
Inke Van Der Sluijs
Director, Market Transformation
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Rijit Sengupta
CEO
Centre for Responsible Business
Bimal Arora
Nadia Rasheed
Deputy Resident Representative
UNDP India
O P Agarwal
CEO
WRI India
Rajeev Dubey
Group President (HR & Corporate Services) & CEO (After-Market Sector)
Member of the Group Executive Board
Mahindra & Mahindra
Karanraj Chaudri
Advisor, SDG & Innovative Finance
UNDP India
Neha Kumar
India Programme Manager
Climate Bonds Initiative
Donal Cannon
Head of Regional Representation
South Asia, EIB
Shubhashish Dey
Director, Climate Policy
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
KAMAL PRAKASH SETH
Country Head, India and Deputy Director, Market Transformation (Global)
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
BHAVNA PRASAD
Director- Sustainable business
WWF
Namit Agarwal
Asia Policy Lead
World Benchmarking Alliance
Madhuri Nanda
Director - South Asia
Rainforest Alliance
Isabel Hoffmann
Manager
Capitals Coalition
Silvia Mera
Director, Apparel Program
GoodWeave International
Chacko Purackal Thomas
Managing Director and CEO
TATA Coffee
Edgar Hertwich
International Resource Panel member
Reid Lifset
International Resource Panel member
Ms. Nusrat Khan
Business and Human Rights Specialist
UNDP India
Amitabh Behar
CEO
OXFAM India
Anup Vikal
Chief Financial Officer
Nayara Energy
Vasanthi Srinivasan
Prof. IIM Bangalore and Governing Body Member,
CRB
Shubha Sekhar
Regional Director, Human Rights and Sustainability,
The Coca-Cola
Viraf Mehta
Member Advisory Committee, NVG and NGRBC;Member Advisory Committee-NAP on Business and Human Rights
GoI
John Morrison
CEO
Institute for Human Rights and Business
Martin Malmros
CEO and Co-founder
Snowkap
Rajeshwari Chandrasekar
Chief Field Office
UNICEF
Minor Ganesan
Senior VP - HR, Admin & CSR
Jockey India
PK Goswami
Director: Occupational health and Safety, Labor Department,
GoI
Neeraj Duggal
Owner/ CEO
Innovative Global
Rajiv Dewan
Owner/ CEO
Ma'am Arts, Jaipur
Shankar Venkateswaran
Advisor - Sustainability, Business, Society
Interim Director - CDP India
Co-Founder, ECube Climate Finance
Chairperson, Oxfam India
Chairperson, CSR Trust for SDGs in India
R C Kesar
Director General
OGTC (Okhla Garment and Textile Cluster)
Prabhat Kumar
Deputy Director,
Save the Children
Nirmala Pandey
Child Protection Specialist
UNICEF
Pawan Gupta
General Manager
Genus Apparel
Ranjeeb Sarma
Head of Compliance
CSR, Marks and Spencer India
Animesh Saxena
Managing Director
NeeTee Clothing
Dr Ashwin Naik
Healthcare Entrepreneur
Author
Dr S Majumdar
C-Suite
Sustainability Professional
Prof. Sapna A Narula
Professor & Dean
Nalanda University
Vedita Agarwal
Climate
Activist
Saksham Nijhawan
Senior Strategist
Forum for the Future
Neha Simlai
Program Manager - IDH
The Sustainable Trade Initiative
Michiel van Erkel
Agricultural Counsellor for India
Sri Lanka, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Sudhakar Desai
CEO
Emami Agrotech Ltd
Sougata Niyogi
CEO-Oil Palm Business
Godrej Agrovet Limited
Mr. G.K. Singh
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Government of India
Ms. Renita Bhaskar
Head of Trade and Economic Section,
EU Delegation to India
Ms. Seema Arora
Deputy Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry
Simon Goff
Founder & Director
Floor Story
Geentanjali Master
Partnerships Specialist
Private and Public Sector Engagement UNICEF
Marco Dubbelt
Officer in Charge
Global March Against Child Labour
Saurabh Gupta
Managing Partner
Devgiri
Arindom Datta
Executive Director, Head of Rural & Development Banking/Advisory
Rabobank
Parthasarathi Changdar
CSR Lead
AkzoNobel India
Kumar Anurag Pratap
Vice President & Head-CSR,
Capgemini-India
Indras Ghosh
Sustainability Manager and Acting Head of Sustainability Projects
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
Kunal Shekhar
General Manager- Raw Material
Bilt Graphic Paper Products Ltd
Kanika Pal
South Asia Head
Community Investments & Sustainability Programmes, Unilever
Dr. Ashwini Chhatre
Associate Professor
Indian School of Business (ISB)
Dr. Deep Narayan Pandey
IFS
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Rajasthan
Rakesh Supkar
Business Head, India
Traidcraft Services India Private Limited
JB Ekka
Principal Secretary
Tea Tribes, Assam
Ranu Bhogal
Director - Policy
Research & Campaigns, Oxfam India
Ranjana Das
Lead Specialist - Private Sector Engagement
Oxfam India
Prabhat Bezboruah
Chairman
Tea Board of India
Ashok Batra
Consultant- Markets Transformation
Rainforest Alliance
Srishti Tamanna
Youth Representative
Wioleta Burdzy Seth
Founding and Steering Committee Member,
Youth for Sustainability India Alliance
Punyasloka Panda
National Coordinator
Youth for Sustainability India & Founder of Blueyard Education
Aashish Beergi
Aashish Beergi, Co-Founder and CEO
Mash Foundation Project
Padma Parija
Youth Representative
Abhishek Mazumdar
Co-founder & CEO,
The Logical Indian
Chacko Thomas
Managing Director & CEO
Tata Coffee
Achalender Reddy
Director
Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS)
Joe Phelan
Director
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), India
Bhavya Sharma
Product Manager
Sustainable Investing, Robeco
Arindom Datta
Executive Director and Head of Rural & Development Banking/Advisory
Rabobank
Dr. Sunil Rai
Vice Chancellor
UPES
Ajit Parulekar
Director
Goa Institute of Management
Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi
Director
BIMTECH
Dr. Ranjan Banerjee
Dean and Professor
BITS School of Management
Deeksha Vats
Chief Sustainability Officer
Aditya Birla Group
Dr. Bimal Arora
Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University,
UK Honorary Chairperson, CRB
Joseph Wozniak
Head, Trade for Sustainable Development – T4SD
ITC
Rajiv Nath
Managing Director
Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd
ReneVan Berkel
Representative
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Santiago Wozniak
Senior Economist
UNCTAD
Vidhya Rangan
Senior Manager
ISEAL
Dr. Sandip Chatterjee
Director/ Scientist 'F',Ministry of Electronics
Information Technology
Corey Dehmey
Executive Director
SERI
Clare Hobby
Director
Purchaser Engagement (Global), TCO Development
Prasanna Narasimaiah
Associated Director
Applied Materials (Bengaluru)
Ritu Baruah
India Program Manager
BONSUCRO
Prashant Pastore
Solidaridad Network
Roshan Lal Tamak
Executive Director and CEO
DCM Shriram Limited
Chandan Kumar
Executive Committee Member
Rashtriya Hamal Panchayat
Dev Nathan
Professor
Institute for Human Development
Ioannis Kampourakis
Postdoctoral Researcher
Erasmus University
Namita Vikas
Founder and Managing Director
auctusESG LLP
Edgar Hertwich
International Resource Panel Member,
Lead Author of the Resource Efficiency and Climate Change Report
Reid Lifset
International Resource Panel Member
Lead Author of the Resource Efficiency and Climate Change Report
Merlyn Van Voore
Head, Secretariat
For the International Resource Panel
Bethan Laughlin
Consumers International
Vimlendu Jha
Founder
Swechha
Saroja Sundaram
Executive Director
Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group
Vishnu PR
CEO
Change can Change Climate Change Foundation
Eva Eiderstrom
Head of Good Environmental Choice Program
Rajiv Kumar
Vice-President
Dhampur Bio-Organics Limited
Ajit Chougule
Executive Director
WISMA
Seema Kulkarni
National Facilitation Team Member
MAKAAM and Senior Fellow SOPPECOM
Prof. Hila Shamir
Professor
Tel-Aviv University
Rajeev Kher
Former Joint Secretary
at MoEFCC and Former Commerce Secretary at Government of India
Dheeraj Talreja
President
AAK India
Bhawna Yadav
Regional Social
and Human Rights Manager (South Asia and ASEAN), Reckitt
Jyoti Sharma
Founder and Chairperson
FORCE Non-profit
Dr Sanjeev Chopra
Former Director
LBSNAA
Natasha Salgia
Visiting Faculty Member
MIT Institute of Design
Ankur Bisen
Senior Partner & Head (Consumer & Retail)
echnopack & Co-author of the book - ‘Breaking the Mould’
Muhammad Junaid
IAS Officer
Karan Garg
Vice President
Brick Kiln Owner Association
Dr Saumen Maity
Senior General Manager
Development Alternatives
Varun Kappal
Regional Manager
Tata Trust
Dr Debolina Kundu
Professor
National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)
S Karthikeyan
Principal Counsellor
CII - Indian Green Building Council
Sachin Joshi
Head
ICISID, UNIDO
Thomas Van Haaren
Senior Manager
Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI), Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)
Marie Claude Quentin
Senior Technical Manager
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), The Consumer Goods Forum
Eva van Heukelom
Technical Manager
Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI)
Hitesh Bhatt
Director, Marketing and Communication
Retailers Association of India
Arindom Datta
Executive Director
Head of Rural & Development Banking/Advisory, Rabobank
Daniel Hachez
Minister Counsellor
Head of Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to Bhutan, China, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Thailand
Laurent Le Danois
Team Leader
International Partnerships, EU Delegation to India and Bhutan
Nikesh Raj
Environment Program Manager,
Hennes and Mauritz India Pvt. Ltd.
Jaideep Gokhale
Vice President Sustainability Asia-Pacific
Director Sustainability South Asia Markets,
Tetra Pak
Srinivas Prasad
CEO
Navabharat Limited
Anoop EV
Dean - College of Forestry
Kerala Agricultural University
Vijay Anand
CEO
Knit Gallery
Shovon Islam
CEO/Managing Director
Sparrow Group of Industries
Simmi Sareen
Founder
GreenFunder
Arpita Pal Agrawal
Managing Director
M-CRIL
Sachin Sharma
Vice President & Head - Channel Operations
ITC
Sridhar Easwaran
Head - Institution and Capacity Building
Samunnati
Aruna Rangachar Pohl
Chairperson, Advisory Committee
India Foundation for Humanistic Development
Ravi Chandra
Advisor
Livelihoods & Value Chain, UNDP
Anil Nadig
Co-founder
TraceX Technologies
Anish Kumar
Trustee
National Association for Farmer Producer Organisations (NAFPO)
Sandeep Roy Choudhury
Director & Co founder
VNV Advisory Services
Dheeraj Mutreja
Assistant Vice President - Rural & Development Banking
Rabobank
Hans Brattskar
Special Envoy
Ministry of Climate and Environment of Norway
Mr. Hem Kumar Pande
IAS
Secretary Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India
Mr. Ramesh Abhishek
IAS
Dr. Arpita Mukherjee
Professor
ICRIER
Jyotsna Sitling
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests
Van Panchayat, Uttarakhand
Caitlin Peeling
Senior Manager
Membership and Services, ISEAL
Joshua Wickerham
Membership and Engagement Manager
ISEAL
Jasmer
Senior Manager – Landscapes
IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative
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