Key Speakers & Panelists*
Rijit
Sengupta
Chief Executive Officer, CRB
Shombi Sharp
UN Resident Coordinator, India
Licypriya Kangujam
10 years old Environmentalist & Climate Activist and Founder
The Child Movement
Erik
Solheim
Former Executive Director, UNEP
Suresh Prabhu
Chancellor, Founding Chancellor of Rishihood University
Guest Professor of London School of Economics, Former Union Minister with 10 Portfolios and 6 Times Member of Parliament
Shri Upendra Prasad Singh
Secretary,
Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
Prof. Dirk Matten
Professor of Sustainability,
Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility
Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
Arun Maira
Former Member,
Planning Commission, Government of India
Atul Satija
Founder & CEO
The Nudge Institute
Jenny Costelloe
Executive Director
Ethical Tea Partnership
Chetna Sinha
Founder-Chairperson
Manndeshi Foundation & Manndeshi Bank
Nidhi Bhasin
CEO, Nasscom Foundation
Cecilia Ekholm,
Ambassador for International Sustainable Business
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Leena Srivastava
Former Deputy Director (Science)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dr. David Nabarro
Co-lead
UN Global Crisis Response Group & 4SD
Joseph D’Cruz
CEO, RSPO(Lead Partner)
Rhea Mazumdar Singhal
Founder & CEO, Ecoware
Franck Viault
Minister Counsellor
Head of Cooperation Delegation of the European Union to India and Bhutan
Jagjeet Singh Kandal
Country Director (India), IDH
Moderator: Vasanthi Srinivasan
IIM Bangalore
Co-Chair CRB Governing Body
Sheshagiri Rao
Joint MD,
JSW
Praveen Kumar
Director General and CEO
IICA
Dibirath Sen
Managing Director, Head - North India
Global Banking, India Lead for Sustainable Finance, HSBC India
RK Singh
CGM
SIDBI
Ricky Kej
Indian musical composer
Shri R C Kesar
Chairperson, CRB
George Gray Molina
Head of Strategic Engagement and
Chief Economist at United Nations Development Programme
Naina Lal Kidwai
Senior Adviser & Member of Board,
Rothschild & Co India
Erinch Sahan
Business & Enterprise Lead
Dooughnut Economics Action Labs
Jayant Sinha
Member of Parliament
Seshagiri Rao M.V.S.
Joint Managing Director & Group CFO, Non-Independent Executive Director
JSW Steel
Dr. Lohro S. Pfoze
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (Manipur)
Shri Bhubaneswar Kalita
Member of Parliament (Assam)
Rajya Sabha
Ms. Sangeeta Agasty
Regional Director
INBAR
Dr. Ruchika Singh
WRI India
Director - Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration
Mr. Sanjeev Karpe
CIBART
Managing Director
Ms. Neelam Manjunath
Manasram Architects
Proprietrix
Ms. Sana Dharani
Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India
Head of Department
Dr. Meera Mitra
CRB
Member, Governing Body
Dr.Viraf Mehta
CRB
Senior Advisor, BHR Expert
Mr. Mukesh Gulati
FMC
Executive Director
Mr. René VAN BERKEL
UNIDO
UNIDO Representative
Mr. Rajiv Chawla
IamSMEofIndia
Chairman
Mr. Yusuf Joseph
St Marys Apparel
Managing Director
Mr. Sudhakar Desai
Emami Agrotech, IVPA
President, IVPA/ CEO, Emami Agrotech
Ms. Karen Ellis
WWF - UK
Chief Economist
Dr. Ashok Dalwai
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
CEO, NRAA
Aparajita Sharma
Additional Commissioner
Municipal Corporation, Faridabad
Mr. Zulfiqar Butt
SAARC Chamber of Commerce & industry
Deputy Secretary General
Mr. Amit Chowdhury
IOM
National Project Officer
Mr. Ian Suwarganda
Global Agri-Resources
Ms. Nikita Asthana
Olam
Vipin Gupta
CEO India
Louis Dreyfus Company
Dr. Jayahari KM
WRI India
FOLU India Country Co-ordinator
Ms. Garima Dadhich
IICA
Associate Prof
Ms. Aruna Newton
Infosys
Amanda Strohan
Canadian High Commission
Deputy High Commissioner
Cristina Larrea
IISD
Lead II, Sustainability Standards
Dr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna
United Nations ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office
"Deputy Head and Senior Economic Affairs
Officer"
Mercy Epao
Ministry of MSME, GoI
Joint Secretary (SME)
Zubeida Zwavel
Zwavel Environmental Consulting
Hari Rajagopalan
Sumunnati
Vice President- Capital Markets & Strategic Initiatives
Kavita Sharma
WRI
Program Manager – Land Accelerator
Sourajit Aiyer
Auctus ESG
Vice President - Sustainable Finance & Climate Strategy
Tamal Sarkar
Foundation for MSME Clusters
Senior Adviser
Pamela Jouven
We Mean Business Coalition
Director - SME Climate Hub
Siddharth Edake
WRI India
Senior Manager, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration Program
Amitava Sil
Officer-in-Charge & Scientist-E
IPIRTI, Field Station Kolkata
IPIRTI
Amitabh Kant
Sherpa, G20
Anil Bhardwaj
Secretary General
FISME
Christian Ewert
Global Director
TEDD
Deepak Arora
President-Public Affairs
Nayara Energy Ltd
Naveen Adwani
CEO
Choice Fashion
Tulika Bansal
Senior Adviser
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Dheeraj Talreja
President (India)
AAK
Ganesh Shankar
Founder & CEO
FluxGen Technologies
Lakshmi Poti
Senior Programme Manager, Materials
Laudes Foundation
Naresh Tyagi
Chief Sustainability Officer
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail
Priyanka Khanna
Asia Head
Fashion for Good
Rajeev Saxena
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Textiles
Sanjib Bezbaroa
ITC
Former Executive Vice President EHS & Sustainability
Nikita Asthana
Head, Sustainability Finance (Vice President)
Olam
Mark Gough
CEO
Capitals Coalition
ALN Rao
FOLU India Country Co-ordinator
Exigo Recycling
Aparajita
Mohd. Sabir
Director
Green E-waste Pvt. Ltd
Sandip Chatterjee
Director, Scientist F
MeitY
Shobha Raghavan
Saahas Zero Waste
COO
Dr. Anurag Priyadarshi
Tata Sustainability Group (TSG)
Deputy General Manager, Community Services
Dr. Rahul Suresh Sapkal
IITB
Asst Prof
Priya Agrawal
UNILEVER
Procurement Manager, Living Wage
Udit Mishra
The Indian Express
Associate Editor
Dr. MS Parmar
Northern India Textile Research Association
Professor and Director
Crispino Lobo
Watershed Organization Trust
Co-Founder and Managing Trustee
Nandkumar
IAS (Retd.)
Prabodha Acharya
JSW Steel
Chief Sustainability Officer
Suresh Babu
WWF India
Director, River Basins and Water Policy
Kate Harris
Global Ecolabeling Network
Secretariat
Asim Sanyal
Consumer Voice
Chief Operating Officer
Jan Christian Polania Giese
One Planet Network
Leader, Working Group on Impact on Biodiversity
Saikat Mitra
Van Heusen
Senior VP - Design
Angshuman Dey, IFS
NABARD
General Manager – New Delhi
Dinny Lingraj
WIPRO
Group Manager-Sustainability
Shri R. V. Ramakrishna,
NABARD
General Manager – New Delhi
Swati Tewari
CII
Senior Counsellor
Abhinanddan Saikia
TISS, Guwahati
Assistant Professor
Anubhav Shrivastava
AAK
Director South Asia
Sucharita Kamath
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
India Chapter Head
Rajiv Kumar
SIDBI
General Manager - Green Climate & Energy Efficiency Centre
Vidya Tikoo
Aditya Birla Group
Vice-President Sustainability
Chaitra Nayak
DSP Investment Managers
ESG Analyst - Investments
Harshal Thakare
Galaxy Surfacants
Anindit Roy Chowdhury
Save the Children
Chief of Programmes
Geetanjali Master
UNICEF
Specialist Public and Private Sector Engagement
Manoj Bhatt
Tri-Impact
CEO
Ranjeeb Sarma
M&S
Strategy Lead
Kasturi Das
IMT, Ghaziabad
Professor, Economic Environment and Policy Area
Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj
Dean, Administration, Quality and Compliance
MDI, Gurgaon
Santhosh Jayaram
HCL
Global Head - Sustainability
Vijay Kumar Mathur
ATDC
Director General & CEO & Executive Director
Bhabani Sankar Pradhan
Arvind
Nikita Asthana
Olam
Santosh Gupta
Ecociate
Director
Indras Ghosh
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
Head - SustainMarkets
Aariz Khan
Child Participant
Neha Kumar
Climate Bonds Initiative
South Asia Programme Manager, Climate Bonds Initiative
Dr. Madhuri Nanda
Director - South Asia
R.K. Singh
SIDBI
Chief General Manager
Radhika Agashe
Access Development Services
Executive Director
Chandrima Chatterjee
Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
Secretary General
Ashim Singla
Association of Garment Exporters Sitapura (AGES)
CEO
Senthil Kumar
Tirupur Exporters and Manufacturers Association (TEAMA)
Vice President
Sridhar Rajagopa
Aagna-REDEFINE Merchandising Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Managing Director
Prajakta L Verma
Ministry of Textile, GoI
Joint Secretary
Mr Richard Beighton
UNICEF India
Chief, Private Sector Fundraising and Partnership
Peusha Kapur
Lindex India Pvt. Ltd.
Director
Prof. Deepti Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering
Morgan Gillespy
Food and Land Use Coalition
Global Director
Vidya Rangan
ISEAL
Senior Manager, Impacts and Innovations
Dr. Kuriakose Mamkoottam
Anker Research Institute
Senior Researcher
Dr. Nidhi Kaicker
Ambedkar University
Assistant Professor-Management
Victoria Solbert
Fair Trade USA
Director of Standards and Implementation
Rita Mendez
ISEAL and Living Income Community of Practice
Senior Coordinator
Litul Baruah
Laudes India
Programme Manager
Christopher Lamoreux
Social Accountability International
Senior Manager
Nitya Nanda
Council for Social Development
Director
Dr. Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Managing Director,
Directorate of Digitalization, Technology and Agri-Business, and Director, Department of Digitalization,
Technology and Innovation
Aditya Petwal
Centre for Responsible Business
Assistant Director
Rohan Preece
Researcher & PhD Student at SOAS
Rajat Kathuria
Shiv Nadar University
Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Professor, Economics,
Bharti Birla
ILO
Chief Technical Advisor, South Asia For Sustainable Global Supply Chains & S+H for All
Kratika Choubey
Transform Trade (earlier known as Traidcraft)
Programma Manager, B&HR
Kalyani Pantangi
Intelliace Solutions Pvt Ltd
Co-Founder, Director and Senior Consultant
Shantanu Gaikwad
Better Cotton Initiative
Implementation Coordinator
Chandrakant Kumbhani
Better Cotton Initiative
Vice President (Community Development Programs)
R P Singh
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare
Additional Commissioner
L.K.Gupta
Cotton Corporation of Indiae
Chairman Cum Managing Director/Director Finance
S. Glory Swarupa
National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ni-msme)
Director General
Ajith Radhakrishnan
World Bank
Senior Specialist
Sandra Claassen
Arisa
Director
Pradeep Narayan
National Partners in Change
Director
Archana Panda
Social Accountability Accrediation Services-India
Operations Manager
Anand Viswanathan
Axis Bank
SVP Risk
Murli Dhar
WWF - India
Director, Sustainable Agriculture Program