IRCC 2024

Prof. Rohini Pande

Rohini Pande is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She is also the faculty director of Inclusion Economics at Yale. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Econometric Society fellow, and a former co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. Pande received the 2018 Carolyn Bell Shaw Award from the American Economic Association for promoting the success of women in the economics profession and the 2022 Infosys Prize in Social Sciences. Formerly, Pande was the Rafik Harriri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Pande’s research, which has influenced policy in South Asia and globally, focuses on how institutions shape power relationships and patterns of economic, political, and environmental advantage in low-income countries. She is interested in the role of public policy in providing the poor and disadvantaged political and economic power, as well as how notions of economic justice and human rights can legitimize and enable such change. With Inclusion Economics India Center, she is working with Indian state governments on gender-inclusive rural development and digital policies and with Inclusion Economics Nepal Center she is evaluating policies to strengthen quality of policy-making by elected local governments.

Pande received a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics, a BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and a BA in Economics from Delhi University.

Prof. Adrija Majumdar

Adrija Majumdar is a faculty member and the current chairperson in the Information Systems area at IIM Ahmedabad. Her research interests include social media, online communities, crowdfunding, and text mining. Her research articles have been published in international journals such as Information & Management, International Journal of Information Management, Information Systems Frontiers Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Communications of AIS, International Journal of Production Economics, etc. She completed her PhD from IIM Calcutta in Management Information Systems.

Prof. Anirban Adhikary

Prof. Anirban Adhikary is the Dean of Faculty and Research, Associate Professor, and Young Faculty Research Chair at IIM Udaipur. His research primarily focuses on sustainability issues in supply chains, exploring innovative solutions to address environmental and social challenges.

Shri Alpan Raval

Alpan Raval is the Chief AI/ML Scientist at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non-profit devoted to developing and deploying AI for social impact across the global South. The institute currently build AI solutions for public health, agriculture and education. Alpan has been working in the applied AI space for over two decades, initially as a professor at the Claremont Colleges in California, and later at D E Shaw Research, Amazon, and LinkedIn. He is an author of a book on network biology, Introduction to Biological Networks.

Alpan holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland, USA and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Shri Chetan Savla

Chetan Savla is President – Sustainability and Strategic Projects at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Within his career with Kotak group of over 30 years, Chetan has led the Sustainability practice for the Group since 2021.

Prior to that, Chetan was Head of Group Strategy at Kotak Mahindra Bank for 4 years and he worked for 18 years as an investment banker with Kotak Mahindra Capital Company. As a part of his work in investment banking, Chetan led over 80 capital market transactions to raise over USD 18 billion for corporate India, as well as advised Indian and global companies in their M&A transactions.

Chetan is a 1991 MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Shri P. S. Narayan

Mr. P. S. Narayan has been instrumental in the creation of Wipro’s sustainability initiative and has stewarded it since its inception in early 2008. Wipro’s sustainability charter is built on the core principle that business and social purpose must reinforce each other in addressing several key challenges around ecology and education.

In addition, Mr. Narayan is Visiting Faculty at the Azim Premji University where he teaches in the MA (Development) program. He is also Visiting Faculty at Xavier School of Sustainability, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar.

Mr. Narayan conducts learning sessions regularly on Sustainability at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indore. He is involved in sustainability advocacy as a member of several industry forums.

He is currently the Chairman of the Bangalore chapter of CII-Godrej Green Business Center. Prior to his current role, Mr. Narayan was the Global Head of Information Systems for Wipro’s IT business, when he was chosen as one of CIO’s global 25 Ones to Watch. A graduate in Electrical Engineering with a post-graduation in Management, Narayan has more than 27 years of cross-disciplinary experience in Business Development, Enterprise Systems and Corporate Sustainability.

Mr. Atul Mittal

Atul is an accomplished, creative and entrepreneurial senior executive with
twenty-four years’ professional experience. Atul has demonstrated proven
success in community mobilization, carbon financing, brand development and
establishing renewable energy products like solar-cookstoves-water purifiers and
now biogas. Worked with big brands like British Petroleum, Philips Electronics,
Max New York Life, Wockhardt and then social start-ups like d.light solar and
MicroEnergy Credits.

Currently Director, Commercial with Sistema.bio, which is a social enterprise
which provides smallholder dairy farmers with biogas technology, service and
financing. It allows smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity and
net income, while improving the environmental sustainability of their farms. Since
Mar 2019, Atul is trying to establish biogas for smallholder farmers in India, South
Asia and East African countries by working through partnerships. He is actively
working with private dairies, foundations, rural entrepreneurship organisations

and government to make biogas – not only for cooking, but also for biofertilizer,

electricity generation and livelihood operations making every farmer of India self-
reliant.

Atul has outstanding sector expertise in social marketing, social franchising, small
enterprise development, integrated development management, with particularly
strong track record in renewable energy products, & livelihood programs which
he has successfully run in India, South Asia and East African countries.

Mr. Syed Farhan

Syed A A Farhan is a Associate Director at PwC India with around 11 years of experience. His work focuses on, carbon markets and climate finance with clients from both the Public and Private Sector across sectors including forestry. He has extensive experience in carbon market advisory including experience in carbon markets advisory, both Compliance market (CDM) and Voluntary Markets (VCM). He has led projects within and outside India focusing on research and assessments as well as capacity building. He was one of the lead authors for a detailed study of the availability and future projection of Carbon Market Mechanisms for MoEFCC, India. He has also supported Article 6 negotiations for COP26 at Glasgow and is currently a key member for the development of the Indian Carbon Market.