Speakers WSDS 2023


Mr. Naseer Ahamed

Minister of Environment,
Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber

COP28 President Designate and Special Envoy for Climate Change
UAE

Ms. Mariam Almheiri

Minister of Climate Change and Environment
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment

Mr. Masatsugu Asakawa

President
Asian Development Bank

Mr. Ugo Astuto

Ambassador of the European Union to India
Delegation of the European Union

Mr. Siddarthan Balasubramania

Principal Strategist
ClimateWorks Foundation

Mr. Manish Bapna

CEO and President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Ms. Xiye Bastida

Co-founder
Re-Earth Initiative

Mr. Suman . Bery

Vice Chairperson
NITI Aayog

Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj

CEO
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation

Mr. László Borbély

State Counsellor to the Prime-Minister
Government of Romania

Dr. Rajiv Chhibber

Vice President
Sahajanand Medical Technologies Ltd

Mr. Manish Chourasia

Managing Director
Tata Cleantech Capital Ltd.

Ms. Helen Clarkson

CEO
Climate Group

Mr. Jon Creyts

CEO
Rocky Mountain Institute

Mr. Kartikeya Desai

Founder & CEO
Desai & Associates

Mr. Nitin Desai

Chairman - Governing Council
The Energy and Resources Institute

Dr. Vibha Dhawan

Director General
The Energy and Resources Institute

Ms. Bahar Dutt

Associate Professor
Shiv Nadar University

Dr. Yasmine Fouad

Minister
Ministry of Environment of Egypt

Dr. Prodipto Ghosh

Distinguished Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Mr. Zac Goldsmith

Lord
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mr. H.E. Christophe Guilhou

Directeur du développement durable
Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires

Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo

Vice President of Guyana
Government of Guyana

Ms. Nialé Kaba

Minister of Planning and Development
Government of Côte d'Ivoire

Mr. Rakesh Kacker

Vice Chairman
TERI Alumni Association

Mr. Amitabh Kant

G20 Sherpa
G20 Secretariat

Dr. Livleen Kaur

Associate Director
TERI

Ms. Deepali Khanna

Vice President
The Rockefeller Foundation

Ms. Aarti Khosla

Director
Climate trends

Dr. Masahide Kimoto

President
National Institute for Environmental Studies

Dr. Priyanka Kochhar

Professor
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Mr. Edwin Koekkoek

Counsellor
European Union Delegation

Mr. Saurabh Kumar

Head (GEAPP India)
Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet

Ms. Heeta Lakhani

Founder & Director
The ClimAct Initiative

Ms. Terhi Lehtonen

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Environment for Finland
Ministry of Environment for Finland

Ms. Gina Elisabeth Lund

County Governor
County Governor of Agder

Ms. Prathiba M. Singh

Judge
Delhi High Court

Prof. Iain Martin

Vice-Chancellor
Deakin University

Dr. Vinod B Mathur

Bureau Member
UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Dr. Ajay Mathur

Director General
International Solar Alliance

Ms. Katie McGinty

VP and Chief Sustainability Officer
JCI

Dr. Purvi Mehta

Director- Global Growth and Opportunities
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Mr. Himanshu Shekhar Mishra

Senior Editor (Political & Current Affairs)
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV)

Ms. Soma Mondal

CHAIRMAN
Steel Authority of India Limited

Ms. Jennifer Morgan

State Secretary / Special Envoy for International Climate Action
Federal Foreign Office

Ms. Leena Nandan

Secretary
Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change

Ms. Jayashree Nandi

Environment/Climate Correspondent
Hindustan Times

Dr. Bruno Oberle

Director General
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Ms. Damilola Ogunbiyi

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer
Sustainable Energy for All

Dr. Erik Olsen

Head of Research Group for Sustainable Development
Institute of Marine Research

Mr. Hiroshi Ono

Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs
Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Dr. Suneel Pandey

Director
The Energy and Resources Institute

Mr. Janos Pasztor

Executive Director
Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative - C2G

Prof. Anand Patwardhan

Professor
University of Maryland, College Park

Ms. Seema Paul

Program Director
Sequoia Climate Foundation

Ms. Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya

Minister
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment

Dr. Janez Potočnik

Co-Chair
International Resource Panel

Mr. Amit Prothi

Director General
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Dr. Nurul Quadir

Secretary and Former Negotiator
Society of Experts on Environment and Development

Mr. Michael R. Bloomberg

UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition & Solutions, Founder of Bloomberg LP
Bloomberg Philanthropies

Dr. M Ravichandran

Secretary
Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

President UN SDSN
Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Dr. Claudia Sadoff

Executive Managing Director
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Mr. Jagjeet Sareen

Principal
Dalberg Advisors

Mr. Ovais Sarmad

Deputy Executive Secretary
UNFCCC UN Climate Change secretariat

Mr. A K Saxena

Senior Fellow and Senior Director
TERI

Mr. Girish Sethi

Senior Director-Energy Program
The Energy and Resources Institute

Mr. Ajay Shankar

Distinguished Fellow
TERI

Prof. Prateek Sharma

Vice Chancellor
TERI SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES

Ms. Prachi Shevagaonkar

Founder & CEO
Cool The Globe

Prof. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda

System Board Chair
CGIAR

Ms. Kadri Simson

Commissioner for Energy
European Commission

Mr. Abhinav Singh

Director
Amazon

Mr. Mahendra Singhi

Managing Director & CEO
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited

Mr. Sumant Sinha

Chairman & CEO
ReNew Power

Mr. Erik Solheim

6th Executive Director
UNEP

Mr. Bård Vegar Solhjell

Director General
Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Mr. Sarbananda Sonowal

Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

Mr. Achim Steiner

UNDP Administrator
United Nations Development Programme

Mr. Simon Emmanuel Kervin Stiell

Executive Secretary
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Chairperson
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Dr. Renu Swarup

Former Secretary
Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India

Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi

President
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Mr. Rajiv Tikoo

Consulting Editor - Sustainability
Outlook Group

Lord Adair Turner

Chairman
Energy Transition Commission

Mr. Rasmus Valanko

Managing Director
We Mean Business Coalition

Prof. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele

Former IPCC Vice-Chair; Professor
Université catholique de Louvain

Mr. Arne Walther

Independent Adviser and Former Diplomat
Norway

Prof. Mark Williams

School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
University of Leicester

Dr. Henning Wuester

Director
ICAT

Ms. Riddhima Yadav

Non-Resident Fellow, Board Director
The Aspen Institute, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Prof. Jan Zalasiewicz

Geologist, lecturer
University of Leicester

Ms. Smita Agarwal

Head Education
Tata Steel Foundation

Ms. Nandini Agarwal

Programme Associate
Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Dr. Manjyot Ahluwalia

Regional Lead-Asia
Global Methane Hub

Ms. Ritu Ahuja

Climate Change Analyst
World Bank

Mr. Ishaaq Akoon

Senior Manager Climate Change
City of Ekurhuleni

Dr. Manish Anand

Senior Fellow
TERI

Dr. Roshni Arora

Applied Freshwater Scientist
The Nature Conservancy Centre India

Dr. Rachna Arora

Team Leader
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Ms. Harpreet Kaur Bajaj

Principal Transport Economist
Ramboll

Mr. Siddarthan Balasubramania

Principal Strategist
ClimateWorks Foundation

Mr. Yogesh Bedi

Chief of Urban Mining & Steel Recycling Businesses
TATA Steel

Mr. Atul Kumar Bhatnagar

General Manager, OMQ Division
Tata Steel Limited

Mr. Amit Bhatt

Managing Director for India
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)

Mr. Amitava Bhattacharyya

Distinguished Fellow, Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Division
The Energy and Resources Institute

Ms. Jane Burston

Executive Director
Clean Air Fund

Ms. Mechthild Caspers

Head of Division
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection

Mr. Rajesh Chadha

Senior Fellow
Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Mr. Siddharth Chaturvedi

Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mr. Manish Chourasia

Managing Director
Tata Cleantech Capital Ltd.

Dr. Winfried Damm

Head, Energy Programme
GIZ - India

Ms. Shradha Das

Green Skipper
M E School

Ms. Amrita Dasgupta

Energy Analyst
International Energy Agency

Mr. Nitin Desai

Chairman, Governing Council
The Energy and Resources Institute - TERI

Ms. Trupti Deshpande

Senior Programme Manager -Electric Mobility
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation

Dr. Vibha Dhawan

Director General
The Energy and Resources Institute

Dr. Rita Dhodapkar

Principal Technical Officer
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur

Mr. Saurabh Diddi

Director
BEE

Ms. Swati Dsouza

Program Head
IndianZEV Center, UC Davis

Dr. LOKESH CHANDRA DUBE

Senior Manager, Standard Development and Innovation
Gold Standard

Mr. Chirag Gajjar

Associate Director
PwC India

Dr. Prasanth Gargava

Member Secretary
Central Pollution Control Board

Prof. Ashok Ghosh

Chairman
Bihar State Pollution Control Board

Dr. Amrita Goldar

Senior Fellow
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Prof. Ashvani Gosain

Director
INRM Consultants

Ms. Surbhi Goyal

Senior Energy Specialist
The World Bank

Mr. Deepak Gupta

Head - Carbon Offsets Business
ReNew Power

Mr. Nitin Gupta

Vice President
Capgemini-INVENT India

Dr. Neha Gupta

Senior Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute

Ms. Ilka Hirt

Deputy Director General
BMUV, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Gemany

Dr. Abdul Kader

Principal Director & Head
CIPET, Ahmedabad

Mr. Tarun Kapoor

Advisor to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
Government of India

Dr. Panagiotis Karamanos

Country Coordinator
International Urban and Regional Cooperation Program

Mr. Anup Karanth

Sr DRM Specialist
The World Bank

Ms. Neha Khanna

Manager
Climate Policy Initiative

Dr. Ashok Khosla

Chairperson
Development Alternatives

Mr. T Surya Kiran

Executive Director
Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU)

Dr. Jayahari KM

India Country Coordinator, Food and Land Use Coalition
Food and Land Use Coalition

Mr. Edwin Koekkoek

First Counsellor
Delegation of the European Union to India

Ms. Nitika Krishan

Key Expert -EU Funded Project
KPMG

Ms. Thelma Krug

Vice Chair
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC

Dr. Arvind Kumar

Scientist F
Department of Science and Technology, DST, India

Mr. Sanjay Kumar

Director General
Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) of NITI Aayog

Mr. Jeevesh Kumar

Founder
Greenscape

Mr. S Vijay Kumar

Distinguished Fellow
TERI

Mr. Ashish Kundra IAS

Pr.Secretary-cum-Commissioner (Transport)
Government of NCT of Delhi

Mr. Amit Lahoti

Senior Commercial Director and General Manager-Asia
Ball Beverage Packaging

Mr. Rohan Malhotra

Executive Director
ISERDIndia Analytics

Dr. Ananda Mallawatantri

Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka (Environment, Climate Change and Green Finance)
Presidential Secretariat

Mr. Katie McGinty

Vice President and Chief Sustainability Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer
Johnson Controls

Ms. Purvi Mehta

Deputy Director
Global Growth and Opportunity, BMGF

Ms. Roopa Mishra

Joint Secretary and Mission Director of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban
Ministry of Home and Urban Affairs

Mr. Manish Mishra

Chief Corporate Affairs
Tata Steel Limited

Mr. N. Mohan

CEO, Delhi EV Cell
Government of NCT of Delhi

Mr. Ruturaj Mohanta

Green Skipper
Shrama Shakti Government High School

Mr. Peter Mwandri

Associate
Green Climate Fund - GCF

Dr. JYOTI NALE

Project Advisor
IEWP Action, GIZ India

Ms. Leena Nandan

Secretary
Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change

Ms. Vaishali Nandan

Head of Projects
GIZ India

Ms. Ekta Narain

Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer
Recykal

Ms. Shruti Narayan

Regional Director, South and West Asia
C40 Cities

Ms. Sushree Smita Nath

Green Skipper
Government High School Kusupanga

Dr. Suneel Pandey

Director & Senior Fellow
TERI

Mr. Satyendra Rajnath Pandey

Member
Gujart Electricity Regulatory Commission

Mr. Sameer Pandita

Director
Bureau of Energy Efficiency

Mr. Virender Pankaj

CEO
Aseem Infrastructure Finance Limited

Mr. Akash Passey

President- Bus Division @ E-mobility
Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

Mr. Janos Pasztor

Executive Director
Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative - C2G

Mr. Mahesh Patil

Chairman
Goa State Pollution Control Board

Ms. Anjali Patra

Green Skipper
Girls Residential Bridge Course Center

Mr. Shri Prakash

Distinguished Fellow
TERI

Mr. Bhuwan Purohit

Executive Director (Corporate Strategy & Planning)
RUBAMIN

Mr. Sony R K

Manager
Food and Land Use Coalition

Ms. Riya Rahiman

Lead- Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS)
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Ms. Kamilla Kristensen Rai

Counsellor (Sustainable Urbanisation, Water & Air)
Delegation of the European Union to India

Dr. Rengalakshmi Raj

Director - Ecotechnology
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Dr. M V RAMANA MURTHY

Director
National Centre for Coastal Research , NCCR

Mr. Abhinav Ramaria

Head - Programs & Operations
Aspire Labs

Ms. Gabriela Ramos

Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO

Ms. Vandana Rao

Deputy Commissioner, Shahdara South Zone,MCD
Indian Administrative Service, Government of India

Dr. ASM Shahidur Rashid

IFPRI Director for South Aisa
IFPRI

Dr. Monique Retamal

Research Director
ISF-UTS

Mr. Umesh Revankar

CEO and Managing Director
Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd.

Mr. Sourav Roy

Chief Executive Officer
Tata Steel Foundation

Mr. A K Saxena

Senior Fellow and Senior Director
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Mr. Samir Chandra Saxena

Executive Director
Grid Controller of India Ltd.

Dr. Heinz Schandl

Senior Science Leader
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Ms. Cornelia Schenk

Energy Efficiency Policy Analyst
International Energy Agency (IEA)

Mr. Arijit Sengupta

Director
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, Government of India

Mr. Ajay Shankar

Distinguished Fellow
TERI

Dr. Jitendra Vir Sharma

Senior Director, Land Resources Division
The Energy and Resources Institute

Dr. Kiran Sharma

Senior Director
TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute)

Mr. R P Sharma

Secretary and Director General
Recycling and Environment Industries Association of India (REIA)

Dr. Manish Kumar Shrivastava

Senior Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute

Dr. Asha Ram Sihag

Distinguished Fellow
TERI

Dr. Namita Singh

Director - Strategy
Digital Green

Mr. Vikash Kumar Singh

Executive Director
Carbon Check (India) Private Limited

Dr. Ruchika Singh

Director, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration
World Resources Institute India

Mr. Sudhendu J Sinha

Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity-Transport and Electric Mobility)
Niti Aayog

Mr. Ganesh Sivamani

Research Associate
Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

Mr. Hans Stielstra

-
European Union

Mr. Mohamed Sultan

Regional Director, Africa
The Global Methane Hub

Dr. Medha Tadpatrikar

Co-Founder Director
Rudra Blue Planet Environmental Solutions India Ltd

Mr. Shalabh Tandon

Regional Head of Operation and South Asia, Head of Climate Business
International Finance Corporation

Mr. Shailesh Tembhurnikar

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (CAMPA)
Maharashtra Forest Department

Prof. Geetam Tiwari

Professor & Head, TRIP-Centre,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Dr. Arun K. Tripathi

Advisor/Scientist-G
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Ms. Jo Tyndall

Director - Environment Directorate
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD

Mr. Ignacio Urrutia

Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist
World Bank

Mr. Hitesh Vaidya

Director
National Institute of Urban Affairs

Dr. Atul Vaidya

Director
CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute

Mr. Satyendra Vaidya

Adviser
The Shakti Plastic Industries

Mr. Amit Verma

Head - Circular Economy
NITI Aayog

Ms. Namita Vikas

Founder and Managing Director
auctusESG

Mr. Amenatave Yauvoli

Ambassador
Fiji Embassy, Jakarta

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