Our Mission

Global Sustainability Alliance is an initiative by ET EDGE to generate a difference with the support of global change makers in advocating sustainability. We aim to catalyze the ambitions to action with business intelligence and help in contributing the vision 2030 with comprehensive thought leadership.

Our Legacy

Thought Leaders

Aditya Natraj

CEO, Piramal Foundation..

Afroz Shah

Indian environmental activist, and lawyer..

Ajay Sehgal

Executive Director- Commercial Business, Lenovo India..

Akshay Malik

Infrastructure Innovation Coordinator, City of Philadelphia..

Alex Ellis

British High Commisssioner to India..

Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti

Former Permanent Representative of India, United Nations

Amit Kapur

Senior Managing Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Amit Sharma

Secretary, Department of Mining, Government of Jammu and Kashmir

Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty

Chief Executive and Managing Director, Greenko

Anish De

Global Sector Head - Energy & Natural Resources, KPMG

Anthony Waterman

Director, ADW Developments

Anu Garg

Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Water Resource, Government of Odisha

Anup Mathew

Head - Greener India Council and Business Head- Godrej Construction, Godrej & Boyce

Arun Goel

Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India

Arundhati Kumar

Founder, Beej, Beej Studio

Ashish Kundra

Principal Secretary cum Commissioner, Transport Department, Government of New Delhi

Ashish Tiwari

Secretary, Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Ashutosh Manohar

Managing Director - South Asia Markets, Tetra Pak

Aun Abdullah Nanda

Sustainability Lead, Deputy Vice President, Lodha

Baldeo Purusharth

Joint Secretary, Economic Affairs, Department of Finance, Government of India

Bhavini Parikh

Founder and Creative Director - Bunko Junko

Claire O’Neill

Managing Director, Climate & Energy, World Business Council

Dan Jeavons

VP Computational Science & Digital Innovation, Shell

Deepak Bagla

Managing Director & CEO, Invest India

Deepak Jain

Partner & APAC Lead Advanced Manufacturing & Services practice, Bain & Company

Deepali Khanna

Vice President, Asia Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand

Dia Mirza

Actor, Producer, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General’s Advocate, Global Ambassador IFAW

Dinesh Waghmare

Principal Secretary, Department of Energy, Government of Maharashtra

Dipali Goenka

CEO & Managing Director, Welspun India

Dr. Akhilesh Gupta

Senior Adviser, Head, Policy Coordination & Programme Management (PCPM), Department of Science & Technology

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Deputy Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power

Dr. Maneesh Mishra

Executive Vice President, Strategy, National Skill Development

Dr. Tayeb A Kamali

Chairman - the Board of Trustees, Abu Dhabi School of Management

Dr. Tito Gronow

Minister & Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland

Dr. V. M. Motghare

Joint Director, Air, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board

G Ashok Kumar

Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India

Gagan Sidhu

Director, CEEW Center for Energy Finance

Ganesan VP

Sr Partner & Distribution Sector Leader India South Asia, IBM Consulting

H.E. Alberto A. Guani

Ambassador, Embassy of Uruguay

H.E. Hans Jacob Frydenlund

Ambassador, Embassy of Norway

H.E. Philipp Ackermann

Ambassador, Embassy of Federal Repupblic of Germany

H.E. Ritva Koukku-Ronde

Ambassador, Embassy of Finland

Hector Gomez Ang

Regional Director of South Asia, International Finance Corporation

Himanshi Singh

Founding Member - Bare Craft, Sr. Development Manager, Ashoka University

Indevar Pandey

Secretary, Women and Child Development, Government of India

Jamshyd Godrej

Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce

Jeanne Holm

Deputy Mayor for Budget and Innovation, City of Los Angeles

Jeff Merritt

Head of IoT & Urban Transformation, World Economic Forum

Jeffrey D Sachs

Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Juhi Gupta

Head of Sustainability, PepsiCo

Kapil Mantri

EVP & Head ­- Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Jindal Steel and Power

Karanraj Chaudri

Head - Innovative Finance for India and South Asia, United Nations Development Programme

Kishore Jayaraman OBE

President - India & South Asia, Rolls-Royce

Kunal Kumar

Mission Director, Smart Cities & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India

LV Vaidyanathan

Chief Executive Officer, P&G Indian Subcontinent

M Hari Menon

Director, India Country Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Mahendra Singhi

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Dalmia Cement (Bharat)

Mahesh Kolli

President, and Joint Managing Director, Greenko group

Manisha Mhaiskar

Principal Secretary, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Maharashtra

Manu Srivastava

Principal Secretary, Department of New & Renewable Energy, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Mili Majumdar

Managing Director, Green Building Council India and Senior Vice President, US Green Building Council

Mohit Bhargava

CEO, NTPC REL

Mr Sriram Haridass

Deputy Representative, UNFPA India

Nadir B. Godrej

Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej Industries Ltd. and Chairman of Godrej Agrovet

Nadir Godrej

Chairman, Godrej Industries & Godrej Agrovet

Namrata Rana

Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Naveen Ahlawat

Head – Coal Gasification Projects, Green Hydrogen & CCSU, Jindal Steel and Power

Naveen Unni

Managing Partner, Chennai, McKinsey & Company

Nawal Saini

Managing Director, Brookfield’s Renewable Power Group

Nitin Kabra

Director Sales, Polaad Steel

Nitin Prasad

Chairman, Shell Companies in India

Om Prakash (O.P.) Agarwal

CEO, World Resources Institute WRI, India

Pankaj Rastogi

CEO, Dalmia Bharat Sugar Industries

Parijat Jain

Partner, Bain and Company

Peeyush Kumar

Joint Secretary, Economic Affair, Department of Finance, Government of India

Piero Pelizzaro

Chief Resilience Officer, City of Milan

Poonam Bir Kasturi

Founder daily dump, Daily bump

Prabodha Acharya

Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW

Prashant Sarin

Partner, Bain & Company

Preetha Reddy

Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group

Rajesh Parameswaran

Executive Director & Industrial Sector Leader, IBM Consulting

Rajesh Tapadia

CEO, Nxtra by Airtel

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Head - Environmental Sustainability at Godrej Industries Ltd and Associate Companies, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd

Ranjit Gerard Sequeira

Lead APAC, Lenovo India

Rinika Grover

Head - Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Apollo Tyres Ltd

Roopa Mishra

Joint Secretary, Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & Mission Director, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India.

S K Mishra

Director, SECI

Sandeep Chandana

Chief Sustainability Officer, Tech Mahindra

Sandeep Chandna

Chief Sustainability Officer, Tech Mahindra

Sanjana Sanghi

Indian Actress
UNDP Youth Champion

Sanjay Seth

Senior Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) & Chief Executive Officer, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council

Sanjeev Ahuja

Secretary & Resident Commissioner to Government of Goa

Sanyukta Samadder

Nodal Officer (SDG) & Commissioner, National Capital Region, UP Government of Uttar Pradesh, India

Satish Pai

Managing Director, Hindalco Industries

Satya Tripathi

Secretary-General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, New York

Shannon Olsson

Global Director, The Echo Network

Shombi Sharp

UN Resident Coordinator for India

Sourabh Jain

Resident Commissioner Government of Kerala

Sreejit Roy

Senior Partner, Global Application Modernization Leader ; Offering Leader - Green IT (GBS), IBM Consulting

Srivatsan Iyer

Global CEO, Hero Future Energies

Stephen Crout

Founder & Principal CityTech Strategy Group, LLC

Subhash Patil

Partner, Technology Consulting, PwC India

Suman Bery

Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog

Sunil Jain

Operating Partner, Energy Transition, Essar

Surajit Gorai

Associate Partner & Sustainability Leader India/South Asia, IBM Consulting

Surya Valluri

Head Sustainability- Pulp and Fibre, Grasim industries

Ulaç Demirag

Country Director of India and Head of South Asia Hub, IFAD

Utkarsh Majmudar

Academic and Member, Board of Governors, IIM Raipur

Vibha Dhawan

PhD, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Videh Jaipuriar

CEO, Delhi International Airport

Vidya Basarkod

Managing Director - India and Ramboll Engineering Centre Director

Vikas Sheel

Additional Secretary and Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, Government of India

Vikram Kirloskar

Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Chairman & MD, Kirloskar Systems

Vini Mahajan

Secretary, Department of Drinking Water, Government of India

Wendy Werner

India Country Head, International Finance Corporation

Yashika Singh

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Sustainability & Responsibility, Pernod Ricard India

Thought Leaders

Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti

Former Permanent Representative of India, United Nations

Amit Kapur

Senior Managing Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Amit Sharma

Secretary, Department of Mining, Government of Jammu and Kashmir

Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty

Chief Executive and Managing Director, Greenko

Anish De

Global Sector Head - Energy & Natural Resources, KPMG

Anthony Waterman

Director, ADW Developments

Anu Garg

Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Water Resource, Government of Odisha

Anup Mathew

Head - Greener India Council and Business Head- Godrej Construction, Godrej & Boyce

Arun Goel

Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India

Arundhati Kumar

Founder, Beej, Beej Studio

Ashish Kundra

Principal Secretary cum Commissioner, Transport Department, Government of New Delhi

Ashish Tiwari

Secretary, Department of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Ashutosh Manohar

Managing Director - South Asia Markets, Tetra Pak

Aun Abdullah Nanda

Sustainability Lead, Deputy Vice President, Lodha

Baldeo Purusharth

Joint Secretary, Economic Affairs, Department of Finance, Government of India

Bhavini Parikh

Founder and Creative Director - Bunko Junko

Claire O’Neill

Managing Director, Climate & Energy, World Business Council

Dan Jeavons

VP Computational Science & Digital Innovation, Shell

Deepak Bagla

Managing Director & CEO, Invest India

Deepak Jain

Partner & APAC Lead Advanced Manufacturing & Services practice, Bain & Company

Deepali Khanna

Vice President, Asia Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand

Dia Mirza

Actor, Producer, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General’s Advocate, Global Ambassador IFAW

Dinesh Waghmare

Principal Secretary, Department of Energy, Government of Maharashtra

Dipali Goenka

CEO & Managing Director, Welspun India

Dr. Akhilesh Gupta

Senior Adviser, Head, Policy Coordination & Programme Management (PCPM), Department of Science & Technology

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Deputy Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power

Dr. Maneesh Mishra

Executive Vice President, Strategy, National Skill Development

Dr. Tayeb A Kamali

Chairman - the Board of Trustees, Abu Dhabi School of Management

Dr. Tito Gronow

Minister & Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland

Dr. V. M. Motghare

Joint Director, Air, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board

G Ashok Kumar

Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India

Gagan Sidhu

Director, CEEW Center for Energy Finance

Ganesan VP

Sr Partner & Distribution Sector Leader India South Asia, IBM Consulting

H.E. Alberto A. Guani

Ambassador, Embassy of Uruguay

H.E. Hans Jacob Frydenlund

Ambassador, Embassy of Norway

H.E. Philipp Ackermann

Ambassador, Embassy of Federal Repupblic of Germany

H.E. Ritva Koukku-Ronde

Ambassador, Embassy of Finland

Hector Gomez Ang

Regional Director of South Asia, International Finance Corporation

Himanshi Singh

Founding Member - Bare Craft, Sr. Development Manager, Ashoka University

Indevar Pandey

Secretary, Women and Child Development, Government of India

Jamshyd Godrej

Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce

Jeanne Holm

Deputy Mayor for Budget and Innovation, City of Los Angeles

Jeff Merritt

Head of IoT & Urban Transformation, World Economic Forum

Jeffrey D Sachs

Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Juhi Gupta

Head of Sustainability, PepsiCo

Kapil Mantri

EVP & Head ­- Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Jindal Steel and Power

Karanraj Chaudri

Head - Innovative Finance for India and South Asia, United Nations Development Programme

Kishore Jayaraman OBE

President - India & South Asia, Rolls-Royce

Kunal Kumar

Mission Director, Smart Cities & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India

LV Vaidyanathan

Chief Executive Officer, P&G Indian Subcontinent

M Hari Menon

Director, India Country Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Mahendra Singhi

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Dalmia Cement (Bharat)

Mahesh Kolli

President, and Joint Managing Director, Greenko group

Manisha Mhaiskar

Principal Secretary, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Maharashtra

Manu Srivastava

Principal Secretary, Department of New & Renewable Energy, Government of Madhya Pradesh

Mili Majumdar

Managing Director, Green Building Council India and Senior Vice President, US Green Building Council

Mohit Bhargava

CEO, NTPC REL

Mr Sriram Haridass

Deputy Representative, UNFPA India

Nadir B. Godrej

Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej Industries Ltd. and Chairman of Godrej Agrovet

Nadir Godrej

Chairman, Godrej Industries & Godrej Agrovet

Namrata Rana

Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Naveen Ahlawat

Head – Coal Gasification Projects, Green Hydrogen & CCSU, Jindal Steel and Power

Naveen Unni

Managing Partner, Chennai, McKinsey & Company

Nawal Saini

Managing Director, Brookfield’s Renewable Power Group

Nitin Kabra

Director Sales, Polaad Steel

Nitin Prasad

Chairman, Shell Companies in India

Om Prakash (O.P.) Agarwal

CEO, World Resources Institute WRI, India

Pankaj Rastogi

CEO, Dalmia Bharat Sugar Industries

Parijat Jain

Partner, Bain and Company

Peeyush Kumar

Joint Secretary, Economic Affair, Department of Finance, Government of India

Piero Pelizzaro

Chief Resilience Officer, City of Milan

Poonam Bir Kasturi

Founder daily dump, Daily bump

Prabodha Acharya

Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW

Prashant Sarin

Partner, Bain & Company

Preetha Reddy

Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group

Rajesh Parameswaran

Executive Director & Industrial Sector Leader, IBM Consulting

Rajesh Tapadia

CEO, Nxtra by Airtel

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Head - Environmental Sustainability at Godrej Industries Ltd and Associate Companies, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd

Ranjit Gerard Sequeira

Lead APAC, Lenovo India

Rinika Grover

Head - Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Apollo Tyres Ltd

Roopa Mishra

Joint Secretary, Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & Mission Director, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India.

S K Mishra

Director, SECI

Sandeep Chandana

Chief Sustainability Officer, Tech Mahindra

Sandeep Chandna

Chief Sustainability Officer, Tech Mahindra

Sanjana Sanghi

Indian Actress
UNDP Youth Champion

Sanjay Seth

Senior Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) & Chief Executive Officer, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council

Sanjeev Ahuja

Secretary & Resident Commissioner to Government of Goa

Sanyukta Samadder

Nodal Officer (SDG) & Commissioner, National Capital Region, UP Government of Uttar Pradesh, India

Satish Pai

Managing Director, Hindalco Industries

Satya Tripathi

Secretary-General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, New York

Shannon Olsson

Global Director, The Echo Network

Shombi Sharp

UN Resident Coordinator for India

Sourabh Jain

Resident Commissioner Government of Kerala

Sreejit Roy

Senior Partner, Global Application Modernization Leader ; Offering Leader - Green IT (GBS), IBM Consulting

Srivatsan Iyer

Global CEO, Hero Future Energies

Stephen Crout

Founder & Principal CityTech Strategy Group, LLC

Subhash Patil

Partner, Technology Consulting, PwC India

Suman Bery

Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog

Sunil Jain

Operating Partner, Energy Transition, Essar

Surajit Gorai

Associate Partner & Sustainability Leader India/South Asia, IBM Consulting

Surya Valluri

Head Sustainability- Pulp and Fibre, Grasim industries

Ulaç Demirag

Country Director of India and Head of South Asia Hub, IFAD

Utkarsh Majmudar

Academic and Member, Board of Governors, IIM Raipur

Vibha Dhawan

PhD, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Videh Jaipuriar

CEO, Delhi International Airport

Vidya Basarkod

Managing Director - India and Ramboll Engineering Centre Director

Vikas Sheel

Additional Secretary and Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, Government of India

Vikram Kirloskar

Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Chairman & MD, Kirloskar Systems

Vini Mahajan

Secretary, Department of Drinking Water, Government of India

Wendy Werner

India Country Head, International Finance Corporation

Yashika Singh

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Sustainability & Responsibility, Pernod Ricard India

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