

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.
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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