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👥 Our Team → ⚖️ Advisory Committee
A nine-year-old organisation held together by two founders is a fragile thing. In 2026 we did something about it: we invited four people with no stake in flattering us to ask harder questions than we ask ourselves.
Our Advisory Committee was convened in May 2026. It brings outside expertise in sustainability and ESG, labour and development research, public advocacy, and people strategy — and it sits at arm's length from the executive team by design.
Sustainability strategist · ESG
Sunil is Head of ESG Analytical at ICRA ESG Ratings, where he leads rating operations and methodology. Across thirteen years he has moved between grassroots conservation and corporate ESG strategy — leading Net Zero and carbon accounting work at Tata Consultancy Services, assessing natural and social capital for global clients, and designing ecosystem-based adaptation plans for Kerala's Vembanad Lake. He holds a Master's in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies from TISS Mumbai.
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Reads our carbon and adaptation claims the way a ratings analyst would — which is exactly how a corporate funder eventually reads them.
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Actor & social advocate
Aditi is an award-winning actor, best known for the title role in Aruvi, working predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam cinema. She is also a lawyer — a graduate in law from Christ University, Bengaluru — and came to the screen from the bar. She engages closely with community-led social and environmental initiatives in Chennai, using a public platform to challenge stigma and open up harder conversations about equity and conservation.
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Helps us reach the audiences a research report never will — and reminds us that a community's story belongs to the community telling it.
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Research · labour & inclusive development
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Challenges our evidence before a funder or a government department does — the methods behind our numbers, and the claims we are entitled to make from them.
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People strategy & institutional growth
Ravi brings more than four decades of management experience across multinationals, Indian firms and the development sector. He was Global Head of Human Resources at VA Tech Wabag, and now works as a senior advisor and executive coach — upskilling management teams and mentoring the next generation of leaders at premier management schools. He holds a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Relations & Human Resource Management from XLRI Jamshedpur and a BA in Economics from Madras Christian College.
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Advises on how we hire, develop and hold on to people — which matters, because climate work should be a career, not a sacrifice.
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A sounding board for institution-building
Helping with structure, systems-thinking and second-line leadership, which are all essentials for durable work.
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Scrutiny of our evidence
Reviewing our research design, knowledge systems, and carbon and ESG claims — whether what we publish stands up to a ratings analyst or a peer reviewer.
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Senior perspective at bottlenecks
When something difficult lands — a funding gap, a safeguarding question, an emergency — there are now four people to call.
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Selective introductions
Opening doors to partners and supporters, entirely at each member's comfort.
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Nine years of work, none of it done alone. Alongside the Advisory Committee; community partners, panchayats, funders and researchers too shape our work and help make it better.
Meet our partners → · Meet the team →
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