Chandrika Bahadur
CEO, The Antara Foundation
Errol D’Souza
Professor of Economics, Vice Chancellor, GITAM
Manish Dubey
Chief – Practice, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
R V Anuradha
Partner, Clarus Law Associates
Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury
Director, The National Metallurgical Laboratory
Vivek Tulpulé
Chief Economist and Head of Economics, Rio Tinto
Vivek Tulpulé
Chief Economist and Head of Economics, Rio Tinto
Helen Robin Bordie
Head of Global Macro and Energy Research, Rio Tinto
Manish Dubey
Chief – Practice, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Amlanjyoti Goswami
Chief – Legal and Regulation,
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Amir Bashir Bazaz
Head – Infrastructure and Climate, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Meghna CN
Senior Associate, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Nidhi Srivastava
External Consultant,
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Sharon Maria Sajan
Senior Associate – Practice, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Sirigowri Guruprasad
External Consultant,
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Chandrika Bahadur, CEO at The Antara Foundation has worked at the crossroads of international policy, organizational leadership, and research. She was President of the SDSN Association, founded the SDG Academy, helped set up the Reliance Foundation, and worked in various roles at the United Nations (2001–2008). She holds master’s degrees from Harvard Kennedy School and IIM Ahmedabad and a bachelor’s from Delhi University.
Manish Dubey is a governance and institutional development expert with over 25 years of consulting experience with national and state governments, multilateral and bilateral development partners, industry, international NGOs, and philanthropies. His experience spans the rural and urban water supply and sanitation, urban development, natural resource management, and rural livelihood sectors across 20 Indian states. 
Dr. Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury, is the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) in Jamshedpur. His expertise spans alloy development, phase transformations, thermomechanical processing, crystallographic texture development, and material characterization. With 126 research papers published in his research has has significantly advanced the field of metallurgical science. His pioneering work includes the development of novel steels and processing schedules for diverse industrial applications.
Vivek Tulpulé, has been with Rio Tinto for over two decades and currently serves as Chief Economist and Head of Economics. He leads the company’s strategic economic outlook, with a focus on the medium- to long-term global macro-economic environment and the markets in which Rio Tinto operates.
Helena Robin Bordie is Head of Global Macro and Energy Research at Rio Tinto, a position she has held since 2011. She has accountability for cross-commodity macroeconomics and primary research, scenarios, and country risk assessment. Robin spent the first part of her career in government, primarily as a Foreign Service Officer for the US Department of State. Her professional exposure to commodities began during her tenure at the US Embassy in Beijing, where she worked on negotiations related to the final stage of China’s bid to join the WTO. Since 2003, she has worked in economics-related roles for BHP, Noble Resources, and currently, Rio Tinto.
Amlanjyoti Goswami heads the Legal and Regulation team at IIHS. He plays
a key role in strategic decision making from a legal and regulatory point of view. His work involves transactional practice, advisory opinion and related legal matters. He also works on building appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks and enabling institutional development in key sectors such as land, urban development, decentralisation and higher education.
Amir Bashir Bazaz has nearly 25 years of experience across a range of areas and themes, including climate, environment, disaster risk, energy, and urban policy. He works on issues at the intersection of economics, finance, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, just energy transitions and sustainable development. His current research interests are on coupled urban and climate transitions, including unpacking the mechanics of long-term transition and transformation pathways.
Meghna CN is a Senior Associate at IIHS, where she supports institutional documentation, reporting and processes. She has worked as a freelance researcher and copyeditor and was previously a research assistant at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. She holds an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Nidhi Srivastava has nearly two decades of experience in legal and policy research on environment, natural resources, energy, climate change, and technology regulation. She has a PhD from the Energy Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she wrote her thesis on governance of critical minerals for energy transition. Her work on minerals includes projects for the Government of India (including Ministry of Mines, erstwhile Planning Commission, Prime Minister’s Office, Inter-State Council Secretariat), United Nations, and other multilateral agencies.
Sharon Maria Sajan is an Architect and Urban Planner, passionate about creating sustainable and resilient human habitats with six years of diverse experience in working with an international organization, NGOs and Educational institutions. Her interests are high performance buildings, energy efficient habitats, climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, GHG accounting and Infrastructure resilience. She has worked closely with local self-governments to design and implement low-emission development strategies.
Sirigowri Guruprasad is an Architect and Environmental Planner whose research interests encompass climate change adaptation, loss & damage assessment, and urban resilience. She has contributed to ESG analyses and played pivotal roles in capacity-building, policy review related to the built environment and energy efficient habitats. Her portfolio includes contributions to the Green Climate Index, proposals for urban resilience and non-motorized transport, and strategies for water body restoration.