About Us

  

 

 

 

 

SPI draws from the experience of a vast number of experts from diverse disciplines who are dedicated to finding solutions to sustainability challenges facing India.

  

Sanjeev Sanyal
BA Economics,
Delhi University
MA/MSc Economics,
Oxford (Rhodes Scholar),
Eisenhower Fellow

Sanjeev Sanyal is the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Sustainable Planet Institute (SPI). He is also Senior Fellow, World Wide Fund for Nature; Member, Steering Committee of the Urban Age at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE); Director of Green Accounting for India States Project; and Fellow, National University of Singapore. Sanjeev was Regional Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank till 2008, based out of Singapore. His book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline" was published by Penguin in 2008. He was named Young Global Leader in 2010 by World Economic Forum, Davos.

 

 

  

Pavan Sukhdev
BA/MA Physics,
Oxford

Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG and Co-Founder of Green India States Trust (GIST). Pavan currently leads the study titled The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity on behalf of the EU Commission. He is also the Project Leader of the United Nations Environment Programme's Green Economy Initiative.

 

 

  

Manit Rastogi
Director, Morphogenesis

Manit Rastogi founded Morphogenesis in 1996 after completing his AA Diploma for which he was awarded Honours and the Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Energy Design. He has taught at the Architectural Association, London; School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi; and the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute; and has been a juror on several design and award juries. Currently the Managing Director at Morphogenesis which was set up with the aim of taking contemporary Asian design to the forefront of the world architecture with an emphasis on sustainable design. The firm is currently a conglomerate of 100 architects and interior designers, based out of New Delhi and Pune and is handling projects across varied and complex typologies.

 

 

  

Ravi Singh
Secretary General & CEO,
WWF-India

Ravi Singh is the Secretary General & CEO of WWF-India since 2003. Prior to this appointment, he was the General Manager and Head, Multi National Corporates, Deutsche Bank, Mumbai. Beside his professional achievements in the corporate sector, Ravi has had an abiding interest in the conservation of nature and working for India. He has been involved in issues related to conservation since 1976 and has been a member of several conservation organizations, which include WWF and the BNHS.

 

 

  

Arun Kapur
B.A./M.A History,
Delhi University

Arun Kapur is the Director of Vasant Valley School. He is also the Chairman of Ritinjali, a NGO he founded in 1995, which is a vehicle for community development through education and constructive work among marginalised societies across India. In 2002, he established Pallavan, an early childhood development programme for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years.

 

 

  

Professor Rajiv Sinha
B.A./M.A. Delhi University
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State

Rajiv K. Sinha is Professor of Marketing and the CSL Distinguished Scholar at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He has taught at Northwestern University (Kellogg). He has served as a consultant to major companies and published widely on issues related to the diffusion of new technologies and environmental economics.

 

 

  

Gaurav Gupta
BA, PPE, Oxford
MA, Development
Economics, Yale

Gaurav Gupta is the Founder and Director of the Climate Project India, which is a part of Al Gore's Climate Leadership initiative. Prior to this, he worked for The Boston Consulting Group in Sydney for 6 years and also co-founded The Cape York Institute, a leading Australian social policy think tank.

 

 

  

 

 

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