Active since 2012, CDP India has evolved to become one of the most effective disclosure platforms. Every year the number of Indian stakeholders disclosing has steadily increased. Currently, 120+ Indian companies and 14 Indian cities choose to analyze their climate risks and opportunities through CDP India. Additionally, CDP India also helps stakeholders in the decarbonization journey through Supply Chain Engagement, Science-Based Targets (SBT) and Internal Carbon Pricing (ICP).
CDP India was the only NGO to be named in India’s INCD submission to the UNFCCC owing to its corporate environmental data repository and tracking of emissions and mitigation data from the Indian Industry. Recently, CDP India also contributed towards driving climate action during COP27.
Koushik Chatterjee is presently the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Tata Steel Limited. He is on the Board of several Tata Steel Group companies. He has been a member of the Primary Market Advisory Committee of the SEBI and was a member of the task force set up by SEBI that drafted the Takeover Code. He is also a member of various international bodies including the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and Global Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Switzerland. He is also a Director of the World Steel Association, Brussels, Belgium. He is a frequent speaker in various academic, professional, and policy forums in India and abroad. He is an Honors Graduate from Calcutta University and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is on the advisory board of IFRS foundation.
Shankar Venkateswaran has over 35 years of experience in the corporate and social development sectors. He started his career in mainstream management consulting before going on to set up Partners in Change, a pioneering non-profit specializing in corporate sustainability and CSR. He has also set up the India office of the American India Foundation and served as its Executive Director, India, and Director of the think-tank and consultancy firm, Sustainability, before joining PwC as Director, Sustainability. In 2017, he retired as Chief of Tata Sustainability Group. Shankar has held board and advisory positions with several non-profits and academic institutions in India and overseas.
Satyavati Berera is the former COO of PwC India and the first woman in a Big 4 firm in the country to hold the position. After more than 40 years of managing diverse portfolios, Satya retired from the firm in March 2023. Satya started her career as an article trainee in 1980 and became a Partner in 1995. Before becoming the COO in 2016, she played key leadership roles at the firm, most recently as the Consulting Leader for the firm in India from 2013 to December 2015, while also being the Managing Partner for the firm's North region. She served as an Audit Partner from 1995 to 2005 and thereafter, led the Risk Advisory Services for the firm in India from 2005 to 2013. Satya has extensively worked across sectors in the areas of Assurance, Consulting and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Services. She was actively involved in designing and implementing control strengthening and process improvement solutions for a variety of Indian and multinational companies. For the last several years, Satya has been closely associated with Mobile Creches, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the education of young children from marginalised communities. Satya graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in Economics and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
R Mukundan is currently the Managing Director of Tata Chemicals (TCL). He has over 26+ years of experience and has led various functions like strategy and business development, corporate quality, corporate planning, and manufacturing before taking over as the chief operating officer of the chemicals business of the company. He has been on the committees of various industry forums like the Indian Chemical Council, AMAI, FAI, FICCI, CII, and BCCI. He has served with ACMA and has been the past President of EUICCI and AMAI. He has been the Chairman of the CII Western Region Council and heads the Manufacturing Committee at BCCI.
He is an engineer from IIT Roorkee and holds an MBA degree from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s advanced management program.
R. Mukundan is a member of the International Board of Trustees of CDP Worldwide.
Ranjeev has over 30 years’ experience in corporate finance in the areas of strategic finance, controlling and reporting, Treasury, investor relations, mergers and divestitures. Since 2007, Ranjeev has worked in senior roles in various organizations in India, including TATA Group. Ranjeev holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay, is a member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants, Australia, and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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