Government of India Officials / Ambassadors / International and Multilateral Institutions / Development Banks
Ajit Kawade
Deputy Secretary and Mission Director PMAY-2, Housing Department, Government of Maharashtra, India
Aloke Barnwal
Thematic Lead for Urban and Infrastructure, Global Environment Facility
Amit Prothi
Director General, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, India
Anamika Ramesh, IAS
Joint Commissioner Municipal Administration, Directorate of Municipal Administration,Tamil Nadu, India
Andreas B. Schei
Counsellor, Climate and Environment, Royal Norwegian
Embassy in New Delhi
Anshul Mishra, IAS
Additional Director, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences Delhi, India
Anurita Bhatnagar
City Planning and Engagement Lead, Climate Projects Preparation Facility, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India
Arun Vyas
Project Director (UI), RUDSICO, Jaipur
Aarti Nain
Senior Advisor, United Nations Environment Programme
Avantika Arjuna
Assistant Programme Coordinator, ICLEI South Asia, India
Azlan bin Abdullah
Senior Deputy Director, Department of City Planning, Kuala Lumpur City Council, Malaysia
Aniruddhe Mukherjee, IAS
President, Board of Revenue, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Bedoshruti Sadhukhan
Associate Director, ICLEI South Asia, India
Bharat Kalaskar
Additional Transport Commissioner and Joint Transport Commisioner, Motor Vehicles Department, Government of Maharashtra, India
Bhupender Kumar Attri
Municipal Commissioner, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Chandana Abeyratne
Public Health Inspector, Kandy Municipal Council, Sri Lanka
C. Divakar Reddy
Chairman, Tirupati Urban Development Authority, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dipin Dileep
Councillor, Kochi Municipal Corporation, India
Divya Prakash Vyas
Associate Director, ICLEI South Asia, India
Dr. Vishanthini Kanasan
Advisor to Chief Minister and Under Secretary, Penang, Malaysia
Dr. Achalendra Reddy IFS (retd.)
Former Chairperson, National Biodiversity Authority, India
Dr. Debolina Kundu
Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India
Dr. Epaminondas Christophilopoulos
President, Metropolitan Organization of Thessaloniki Museums of Fine Arts (MOMus); Head, UNESCO Chair for Future Research
Dr. Gajendra Singh
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
Dr. Monalisa Sen
Associate Director, ICLEI South Asia, India
Dr. Nand Pal Singh
Senior Technical Advisor, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Dr. Sivananda Damodara Pai
Program Head, Mission Mausam, Ministry of Earth Sciences & Additional Director General of Meteorology, Agromet Advisory Services Division, IMD
Debal Mitra
Senior Manager, Climate Policy Initiative
E.M.L Udaya Kumara
Deputy Director, District Disaster Management Coordination Unit, Badulla, Sri Lanka
Elli B. Tzatzanis-Stepanovic
Environmental Economist, Senior Project Manager, Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria
Emani Kumar
Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI & Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Senior Advisor – Sustainable Development, Infrastructure and Climate; Non Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings; Former World Bank Senior Leader
Ganesh Paudel
Member Secretary, President Chure Terai-Madhesh Conservation Development Board, Government of Nepal
Ganga Singh, IAS
Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Vadodara
Gino Van Begin
Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany
Hans-Peter Egler
Senior Director, Sustainable Infrastructure, South Pole, Switzerland
Hansa Patel
Chairperson, ICLEI South Asia
H.E. Juan Antonio March Pujol
Ambassador of Spain to India
Hemanthi Goonasekera
Chief Executive Officer, The Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities (FSLGA)
Jai Kumar Gaurav
Senior Advisor, Climate Change and Circular Economy, GIZ India
Jaya Dhindaw
Executive Director, World Resources Institute India
Jazlyn Lee
Engagement Lead for Southeast Asia and South Asia – The City Climate Finance Gap Fund, Global Covenant of Mayors, Malaysia
Kalanidhi Devkota
Executive Director, Municipal Association of Nepal
Kanak Gokarn
Officer, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany
Karel Van Oodrt
Project Coordinator, Eurocities, Belgium
Karishma Asarpota
Senior Officer, Climate Action, ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany
Karthik Ram
Head of India Portfolio, Clean Air Fund
Kiran Kumar Avadhanula
Senior Urban Sector Specialist, KfW Development Bank
Krishan Kumar, IAS
Chief Executive Officer, Delhi Disaster Management Authority, India
Krishna Desai
Technical Advisor, Gender Focal Point – Sustainable Urban Mobility, GIZ India
Lovlesh Sharma
Head – Urban Youth Unit, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India
Laxmi Karhadkar
President, Panchgani Hill Station Municipal Council, Maharashtra, India
Manisha Khatri, IAS
Commissioner, Nashik Municipal Corporation, India
Manish Chaube
Sr. Manager, Technical, (Engineering), Bhopal City Link Limited/Bhopal Municipal Corporation
Manish Kumar Soni
Regional Transport Officer, Kangra, Directorate of Transport, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India
Manjunath Sekhar
Director – SUMACA, GIZ India
Marco Toscano-Rivalta
Chief, UNDRR Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Meeta Punjabi
Senior Food Systems Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Thailand
Mirant Parikh, IAS
Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, India
Mohan Kumar
Regional Administrator, Mahe; Commissioner, Mahe
Municipality, Puducherry, India
Montgomery Simus
Global Director of Public Affairs, Policy, and Blue Finance, The Ocean Cleanup, Netherlands
Michael Steidl
Head of Regional Representation to South Asia, European Investment Bank
Naim Keruwala
Regional Director, South and West Asia, C40
Neha Awasthi
Expert – Heat Resilient Urban Planning, Cities Unit, Mitigation Branch
Climate Change Division, United Nations Environment Programme
Nicola Iezza
Finance & Funding Helpdesk Manager, Urban Transitions Mission
Nikhil Kolsepatil
Programme Coordinator, Energy & Climate , ICLEI South Asia, India
Nikhil Mijar
Transport Planner, Pune Municipal Corporation, India
Nikhil John
Head, Climate Finance, Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute
Nivedita Varshneya
Regional Advisor, Welthungerhilfe
Norio Saito
Senior Director, Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Asian Development Bank
Pawan Agarwal, IAS, retd.
Chief Executive Officer, Food Future Foundation
Palwe Girish Haribhau, IFS
Assistant Mission Director, Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission
Peter Martin Premananth
Engineer, Nuwara Eliya Municipal Council, Sri Lanka
Philippe Sas
Head of International Cooperation and Counsellor, Embassy of Switzerland to India and Bhutan
P.M. Brindhaa Shrri
Councillor for Alandur, Chennai, India
Prerna Mehta
Associate Director of Urban Development, WRI India
Pratyush Kanth
Senior Project Officer, Project Development Unit, Asian Development Bank
Puja Karki
Head, DRR Section, Lalitpur Metropolitan Corporation, Nepal
Ravi Shankar Prasad, IAS retd.
Distinguished Fellow, CEEW; ex-Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
Ridhima Sud
Senior Advisor for Climate Change, Embassy of Switzerland to India and Bhutan
Ritu Agarwal Sharma
Joint General Manager, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, India
Rodrigo De Souza Corradi
Deputy Executive Secretary and Director, ICLEI South America
Rohit Sen
Coordinator, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany
Rohit Sissoniya, IAS
Additional Commissioner, Indore Municipal Corporation, Madhya Pradesh, India
R. Srinivas
Urban Planning Expert, ADB TOD Cell, Institute of Urban Transport, India
Ruslan Zhechkov
Climate Finance Expert, Global Covenant of Mayors, Belgium
RVS Kapur, IAS
Special Secretary, Department of Sundarban Affairs, Government of West Bengal, India
Sambhav Ayachi
Assistant Commissioner, Jabalpur Smart City Limited, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
S. Suresh Kumar, IAS
Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
Santosh Tiwari
Chief Finance Officer, Vadodara Municipal Corporation, India
Sayeed Rezaul Haque
Deputy Town Planner & Project Manager (CRGAP), Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), Bangladesh
Sayli Mankikar
Associate Director, ICLEI South Asia, India
Sebastian Markart
Project Head Urban Act India, GIZ
Shinjini Saha
Knowledge Management Expert, ICLEI South Asia, India
Shombi Sharp
UN Resident Coordinator in India
Soumya Chaturvedula
Director, ICLEI South Asia, India
Stanzin Rabgais
Executive Officer, Municipal Committee in Leh, Ladakh, India
Sujatha Srikumar
Director, Powertec Infrastructure and Financial Advisory Services, Powertec Engineering Pvt Ltd
Swapnil Shukla
Executive Engineer, Vadodara Municipal Corporation, India
Soohyung Kim
Economic Affairs Officer (Technology and Innovation), Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT), UNESCAP
Takashi Ariyoshi
Minister & Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in India
Tijs van Balen
Deputy Economic Counsellor, Embassy of Netherlands in India
Ulka Kalaskar
Joint Municipal Commissioner, Chief Accounts and Finance Officer, Pune Municipal Corporation, India
V. Krishna, IFS
Conservator of Forests, Research & Development Circle, Hyderabad; Dean, Forest College and Research Institute, Mulugu, Hyderabad, India
Varsha Singh
Project Coordinator, UrbanShift – India, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India
Veda Bharadwaja
Programme Lead, Safe and Inclusive Public Spaces, UN Women India
Vijay Saini
Senior Manager, ICLEI South Asia, India