Mr Shri Prakash joined TERI in July 2011 as Distinguished Fellow, after a long and distinguished career in Indian Railways. His association with TERI goes back to 2003-2004 as a Visiting Senior Fellow.

For over 9 years he is guiding research in sustainable transport policies in Centre for Research in Sustainable Mobility in TERI. The main research areas currently pursued in the Centre is urban transport, electric mobility particularly on freight transport and smaller and intermediate passenger electric vehicles, modal shift from road to rail as India has a robust rail network, transport modelling and forecasting etc.

His career with the Indian Railways spanned over 37 years where he held numerous key positions in different Zonal Railways and the Railway Board. Mr Prakash retired as Member (Traffic), Indian Railway Board and Secretary to Government of India in December 2009. Upon retirement he was appointed as Chairman, Standing High Powered Committee on Infrastructure Planning, Business Development and Project Monitoring on Indian Railways. During his tenure, the Committee prepared a comprehensive report on future strategies for Indian Railways.

Sharif Qamar works on research, policy analysis, and project implementation within the Transport and Urban Governance area. He is involved in conceptualization and implementation of a number of projects in transport and urban governance. In transport sector, he has experience in projects related to public transportation, freight movement, EVs, and transport modelling. He has earlier worked in the railways sector in areas such as freight, national highways sector, inter-model comparison study, urban mass transit, urban freight, bike taxis, GHG calculator for logistics, among others. He is currently involved in urban governance related projects - CITIIES and Urban Living Lab, Panaji.

Promit is post-graduate in environmental economics. He has worked on multiple aspects of sustainable mobility including e-mobility, railways and public transport. He has been a part of multiple techno-economic modelling exercises looking at decarbonization pathways for the transport sector. Presently, his research has been focused on improving the share of railways in freight transport and understanding areas for enhancing climate ambitions for the transport sector in India.

Mr Sampath Kumar Velamoor Srinivasan is the Head of Business Development at Tata Cleantech Capital Limited. He is a senior banker with close to 20 years of experience in project and infrastructure finance and advisory assignments spreading across sectors (infrastructure, power, renewables, oil and gas and others) and investors in South Asia.

Jasjit carries more than 30 years of work experience in Sales, Logistics and Supply Chain management functions along-with strategic leadership and change management. He joined TCI in the year 2000 and is now serving as CEO, TCI Supply Chain Solutions.

TCI Supply Chain Solutions is a single window enabler of Logistics and Supply Chain encompassing all the needs right from conceptualization to implementation for high value industry segments like Automobile, Retail & CP, E-Commerce, Telecom & Hitech, Chemical, Life Sciences and Healthcare.

He is an alumni of Harvard Business School, Amity Business School and Punjab University, Chandigarh, besides courses with NITIE (Powai), National University of Singapore and MDI (Gurgaon).

• Director, Transystem Logistics Pvt Ltd
• Director, TCI Concor Multimodal Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
• Director, TCI Cold Chain Solutions Ltd.
• Member of National Committee on Infrastructure, FICCI
• Member, ASSOCHAM National Council on Logistics
• Member, CII National Committee on Retail
• Advisory Board Member, Maritime Gateway

He has a deep interests in Supply Chain / Logistics Industry wit

Ms Haimanti Poddar is the Senior Energy, Climate Change & Urban Adviser and COP 26 Zero Emission Vehicles Transition-India Lead at British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata. She is a Post-Graduate in Economics from University of Calcutta and a Gold Medalist in Post Graduate Diploma in Environment Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management. She has undergone training on Disaster Management from European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy. She has managed several projects on climate action and electric mobility across Indian States. She has worked previously as the Head of Environment Management Centre of Indian Chamber of Commerce. She has contributed articles on environment and climate related areas in journals and books. She is a recipient of Rotary Youth Leadership Award and has represented India at International Youth events in Japan and US to speak on Environmental Leadership. She is a doting mother and an amateur painter.

Mr Karthick Athmanathan is currently Senior Vice President at Ashok Leyland as well as a Professor of Practice at IIT Madras. He is also a “Fellow” with the Principal Scientific Advisor’s office. At IITM, he is developing and launching a Web-enabled multi-disciplinary MTech Program in Mobility- as well as starting various Projects jointly across Academia-Industry-Govt. He is also deeply involved with the Govt. of India, Industry Associations and Academia to improve eMobility-related R&D, Skilling and Innovation. With the PSA’s office as a Fellow, he is helping the Govt. of India develop cutting edge, unique and innovative Charging Standards to suit the Indian context for e2Wheelers and eBuses. At Ashok Leyland, he has handled projects like the eMobility, Captain Cab, Sunshine School Bus, Circuit eBus and the HyBus Hybrid Bus. He was the Chief Engineer for Buses, Cabs & Load Bodies and also managed the Product Development for Optare- Leyland’s subsidiary in the UK- world pioneers in Electric & Hybrid Buses. In his earlier role as the Head of Global Bus Platform, he was instrumental is recasting the Global Bus Portfolio of the company, targetting new markets, trends and segments. He was also the Head of AL’s eMobility Business and has been in the forefront of electrification of Commercial Vehicles in India- helping AL win many awards in the eMobility space for Innovation. Before joining Ashok Leyland, for the previous 15+ years, Karthick was a successful entrepreneur and had promoted, developed managed and sold three businesses in the Die Making, Product Engineering and IT domains. Karthick is interested in Travel and Wildlife and is proud of his association with the Ashok Leyland team that recently developed, for & during the COVID crisis, a new value Respirator for First Mile use and non-critical care.

Mr Vivek M Chandran is Associate Director of the Transport Programme at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (Shakti), which seeks to facilitate India’s transition to a clean and secure energy future. In his role, Vivek provides strategic planning, leadership, and guidance to the Transport program and its various initiatives that seeks to catalyse transformative solutions that accelerate the adoption of low-carbon and emission-free vehicles and fuels. Prior to joining Shakti, Vivek supported the development and implementation of sustainable transport policies and projects working with WRI-EMBARQ, Centre for Urban Equity (CEPT University) and C40 Climate Leadership Group. Vivek received a master’s degree in Planning with a specialisation in Urban and Transport Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.