About CDP Operations India Pvt Ltd.

Koushik Chatterjee

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

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

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).

Dennis Wan

Dennis Wan heads the front-line team engaging with regional financial markets actors and stakeholders for CDP, an NGO running the world’s largest repository of climate change, water security and forestation environmental data. Founded on transparency, CDP has produced scoring and research to catalyse sustainable investment, procurement and policy decisions across the globe for over two decades.

After personally witnessing USA forest fires in 2021, Mr. Wan left a career in banking to drive environmental transparency by joining CDP. Immediately prior, he spent 22 years with Credit Suisse across Tokyo, New York and Singapore, rising from junior accountant to Chief Operating Officer of Hong Kong. In this final role, he ran the Board of Directors and locational governance for all banking business lines and support functions, interacting regularly with international regulators and authorities. Mr. Wan studied with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, graduated from Imperial College and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

Ranjeev Lodha, India Director

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.