Abhinay Jaiswal
Deputy General Manager
Project Finance Cell at New Delhi State Bank of India

Mr Jaiswal is presently heading Project Finance Cell at New Delhi. Post Graduated in Physics and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. Having vast experience of more than 29 years with State Bank of India. Dealt in high value credit for more than 15 years and experience of working at Technical Consultancy Cell at Bank. Have major exposure in financing Power Sector (Renewables, Thermal & DISCOMS), Engineering, Sugar, Fertilizers, and Leather Industry etc.

Ajay Mathur
Director General
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi

At TERI, he has spearheaded the move to accelerate action towards a lowcarbon and cleaner economy through the promotion and adoption of renewable energy and green hydrogen in the Indian electricity sector, enhancing efficiency in buildings and industry, and promoting environmental quality through institutional and policy measures to enhance air quality across the country, adoption of resource efficiency and waste recycling measures, and biotechnology-based solutions, especially for agricultural and industrial environment improvement.
He co-chairs the global Energy Transitions Commission; is also co-chair of the Clean Cooling Initiatives of the One Planet Summit.
He earlier headed the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency, and was responsible for its foundational programmes which mainstreamed energy efficiency through initiatives such as the Star Labeling programme for appliances, the Energy Conservation Building Code, and the Perform, Achieve & Trade programme for energy-intensive industries. He was a leading climate change negotiator, and was the Indian spokesperson at the Paris climate negotiations. He served as the interim Director of the Green Climate Fund during its foundational period.
Dr Mathur received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the (then) University of Roorkee, and Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois. He has also received the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both his alma maters.
He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Merite by the President of France in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the preservation of the environment and coping with energy-related challenges.

Amit Rama
DSenior Vice President,
UK Climate Investments

Amit leads the transaction origination, execution and asset management activity in India for UK Climate Investments, MIRA’s joint venture with the UK Government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change.
Amit joined MIRA in 2017 through Macquarie’s acquisition of the UK Green Investment Group (GIG) where he was responsible for GIG’s investments in UK offshore wind and biomass assets.
Amit has extensive advisory and principle investment experience across renewable energy and utility sectors. He has over twelve years of specialist experience in the renewable energy sector including over eight years with GIG’s investment team focusing on debt and equity investments in projects in the solar PV, onshore wind, offshore wind and waste and bioenergy sectors. Earlier Amit spent four years in Nomura International’s Natural Resources & Utilities investment banking team and two years as a corporate finance adviser at Argent Partners. Earlier in his career, Amit was also a manager in Deloitte’s M&A Corporate Tax team in London.
Amit has a Bachelor of Accounting & Finance from University of Leeds. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Annapurna Vancheswaran
Senior Director-Communication Outreach and Advocacy Unit
The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi

As Senior Director, Communication Outreach and Advocacy Unit (COAU) at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the focus of Dr Vancheswaran's work is mainly in the area of global sustainable development and includes interactions with international and Indian organisations, Government Departments, NGOs and the private sector with particular application to the diverse problems of India.
The Unit that she leads is also involved in cutting-edge research on education for sustainable development. Various projects undertaken by the Unit have tremendous reach and influence on school and college students in addition to other stakeholders.
Since 2010, she has been associated with TERI University as an Adjunct Faculty and has been teaching Business Ethics as part of MBA programme of the University.
In addition to her above responsibility, from 2019 - 2015 she was additionally appointed as VicePresident, TERI, North America to oversee TERI’s programmes and activities in the region. Dr Vancheswaran has a Ph.D in Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Bachelor of Science from the Delhi University.

Ms Nadia Rasheed
Deputy Resident Representative,
United Nations Development Programme, India

Ms. Nadia Rasheed is the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in India. She assumed her duties in November 2018.
Prior to this she was Team Leader for the UNDP Regional Health and Development Team for Asia and the Pacific from 2014 to 2018, and was UNDP Deputy Country Director ad interim in Sri Lanka from June to August 2018. From 2009 to 2014 she was the global Practice Manager for the HIV, Health and Development Practice in UNDP Headquarters in New York.
She has worked with UNDP on a range of health, gender and development issues, representing the organization in partnerships with UN organizations, managing UNDP and interagency programmes and providing advisory support to UNDP Country Offices and national partners. From 2005 to 2009 she was Policy Specialist on HIV in the Bureau for Policy development, and the UNDP focal point for the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). She also previously worked with the UNDP Human Development Report Office, and with UNDP and other organizations on capacity development and gender equality.
Ms. Rasheed received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, and her master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Pankaj Sindwani
Chief Business Officer at Tata Cleantech

Pankaj Sindwani is the Chief Business Officer at Tata Cleantech. He is tasked to build Climate Finance Business across mainstream and emerging sectors. Besides Business, he has also been responsible for co-creating an ecosystem of alliances and partnerships with domestic and Global stakeholders for Clean Technology Finance in India.
A regular Speaker at multiple National and International forums on Clean Technology, he has also been mentoring Start-ups, more specifically in Clean Technology space.
Pankaj has held various important positions in past both within and outside Tata Group and his previous responsibilities include roles in Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing Operations and Corporate Strategy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from BITS Pilani and an Executive Masters in International Business from IIFT, New Delhi.

Prasad Gadkari
Executive Director and Chief Strategy Officer
Strategic Initiatives and Policy Advisory

Prasad Gadkari has over two decades of experience in areas of private equity, principal investments, joint ventures, project finance, and corporate & policy advisory.
Prior to joining NIIF in 2017, Prasad was the Managing Director at TVS Capital, based in Mumbai. During his stint at TVS, he was responsible for driving the PE business with a specific focus on select consumer/industrial deals and finalisation of investment and fund-raise strategy of TVS - Fund 3. Prior to TVS, Prasad was a Partner with IDFC Private Equity, focused on investments in core infrastructure and social sectors. Over his almost decade long stint with IDFC PE, he handled several important deals including India’s first infrastructure holding company, an oncology care chain, largest airport privatisation deal, a water management business and India’s first student living solutions company.
Prasad has also worked with General Electric (GE), where he was responsible for infrastructure investing and joint ventures in South Asia, Middle East and North Africa region.
Prior to GE, Prasad was with IDFC Ltd in their project finance group, where he handled some of the earliest project financing transactions in the country. He was also a key member of the team that provided policy level inputs to the Govt of India (e.g. NHAI, JNPT) for their initial privatisation transactions.
Prasad started his career in 1996 with Larsen & Toubro’s infrastructure finance business, just around the time India started experimenting with infrastructure privatisation. Prasad has a Bachelor’s in Commerce from Bombay University and a Master of Management Studies (MMS) from NMIMS, Mumbai. He is also a CFA Charter holder.

CA (Dr.) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal
Central Council Member, ICAI
Chairman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Vice Chairman, Accounting Standards Board, ICAI
Partner, S R Batliboi & Co. LLP

Ms Yasmine Moezinia
Deputy Director and Head of Private Finance Unit, HM Treasury

Yasmine is a Deputy Director at HM Treasury and currently Head of the Private Finance Unit reporting directly to Mark Carney in his role as the Prime Minister's Finance Adviser for COP26 (UN Climate Change Conference). The objective in this role is to help build a sustainable financial system to support the transition to a net zero economy. Since 2015, Yasmine has held a number of roles in the Treasury and Cabinet Office. Before that she was at UK Financial Investments where she helped manage HMG’s shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland and lead the design and execution of the share sale programme for the stake in Lloyds Banking Group. Yasmine started her career after graduating from Yale University in 2009 as a financial analyst at Nomura International (after its takeover of Lehman Brothers’ Europe operation)