About Carbon Disclosure Project India

Ramakrishnan Mukundan

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.

Ananth Aravamudan

Ananth Aravamudan serves as chief of strategy and sector lead, Climate Action & Agriculture, at Villgro, a leading social enterprise incubator and impact investor. His career spans over 29 years of work in both the social enterprise sector and the corporate world. His team at Villgro identifies and supports high-potential start-ups in the areas of green livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and waste management, among other areas. Prior to this, Ananth spent a 6-year stint with SELCO, a social enterprise specialized in taking renewable energy solutions to people at the base of the economic pyramid. There he was responsible for the creation of SELCO Foundation, which looked into the use of renewable energy and sustainable technologies in the fields of education, agriculture and livelihood generation. He architected several innovative programs like Light for Education, e-Shala and solar micro-pumping.

In 2015 Ananth was selected as a Fellow of the Chevening Rolls Royce Science and Innovation Leadership program, awarded to 14 high-potential individuals from India and Sri Lanka every year, which enabled him to study at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

An electronics engineer by training, Ananth worked for more than 14 years at multi-national companies like Siemens, Lucent Technologies and MindTree. His primary areas of focus were wireless communications equipment, embedded systems and medical devices. He held various leadership positions during this time.

Ananth is an active speaker, writer and traveller. He has delivered training and awareness programs at various Indian and international venues, to audiences as varied as technicians, budding entrepreneurs, bankers and Indian parliamentarians. Passionate about nature and the environment, he wrote a long-running weekly column in the Bangalore Mirror on urban wildlife.