Amitabh Kant is presently CEO of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog). He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 batch). He is the author of Branding India-An Incredible Story and has edited “The Path Ahead- Transformative Ideas for India”. Kant has been a key driver of the “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and God’s Own Country” initiatives that positioned India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing and tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities – infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding based on extensive market research. Amitabh Kant has been the Chairman & CEO of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC). The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is being developed by the Government of India as a global manufacturing and investment destination supported by world class infrastructure and enabling policy framework. The DMIC project is aimed at the development of futuristic, smart industrial cities in India which will converge and integrate next generation technologies across sectors. The DMIC cities will address not merely the urbanization requirements of India, but with manufacturing as the main economic base, will also contribute significantly to the economic growth of India. In his capacity as Secretary (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion) Govt. of India, he vigorously drove the Ease of Doing Business initiative and ranking of States on outcome parameters. These initiatives have led to India making a quantum jump in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Index and enabled Indian States to compete in the spirit of competitive federalism. He is the Chairman of the Committee to implement Digital Payment in India. Mr. Kant has been the recipient of Economic Times Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is also the recipient of Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship awarded by the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum. He is also the recipient of Golden Peacock Award for Leadership in Economic Transformation-2017. Amitabh Kant has worked as CEO, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Corporation, CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed. During his tenure in Kerala he structured the Calicut Airport as a private sector project based on User’s Free and developed the BSES Power Project and Mattanchery Bridge under Private Public Partnership. He was also responsible for introducing new technology (fiberglass crafts and outboard motor) in the fisheries sector and launching beach level auctions which substantially enhanced returns to traditional fishermen. Amitabh Kant did his schooling from Modern School, Delhi, graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar. He has also undertaken a mid-term course with John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmadabad.

Dr Amit Jain is a Fulbright Scholar at NREL, USA, Chevening Fellow at King’s College, London, and has Ph.D. in solar energy. He works with the World Bank and leads a $2 billion renewable portfolio in India, Bangladesh, and the Maldives. It includes REWA and Charanka solar park, inaugurated by Hon. PM Shri Narendra Modi. The REWA project has received the World Bank Group President Award for innovation and excellence and included in the Prime Minister's book 'A Book of Innovation: New Beginnings'. Amit’s previous assignments include the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Clinton Foundation. Amit has authored two books on climate change policy and waste to energy and has several international peer-reviewed journal publications. His hobbies include scuba diving and badminton.

Prof. Solanki has been referred to as “Solar Man of India” by Times of India, The Hindu and India Today. Some people also call him “Solar Gandhi”. Prof. Solanki was born in a small village called Nemit in the Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh. His primary school had just one classroom and a teacher at that time. Having studied in the light of the kerosene lamp himself, Prof. Solanki is now committed to providing clean light to all. He received his Ph.D. from IMEC (Ketholik University) Leuven, Belgium, a leading R&D and innovation hub in micro and nano-electronics. Known for his remarkable work in the field of Solar, Prof. Solanki is an educator, innovator, researcher, entrepreneur, and author. He had led major solar projects at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay including the National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) and the Solar Urja through Localization for Sustainability (SoULS) Initiative. He has established best labs in the country. Prof. Solanki has reached to 7.5 million families with the solar lamp. Following Gandhian ideals, he has coined the word ‘Energy Swaraj’. His Energy Swaraj Movement is a stepping stone towards energy access, energy sustainability, and climate change mitigation. In order to establish Energy Swaraj across the globe, he has founded the Energy Swaraj Foundation, which is a not-for-profit organization. Prof. Solanki has published over 100 research papers in reputed international journals. He has 4 US patents to his credit with several more under review. He was recently awarded Jury Choice Award in the “Outstanding Green Activist” category and many other awards to their credit. He has recently founded the Energy Swaraj Foundation to establish Energy Swaraj across the globe, wherein energy is generated and consumed by locals. He has recently authored Energy Swaraj: My Experiments with Solar Truth, based on his life events.

Professor Eicke R. Weber is Chair of the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC). In 2017/18 he has been Director/CEO of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS). Before this he was Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Professor for Physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. Prof. Weber studied Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he obtained his doctorate in 1976. From 1983 until 2006 he served on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. Since 2003 he serves as founding president of the German Scholars Organization (GSO). In 2006 he received the Award of Merit from former German President Horst Kohler. In 2015 he was elected president of the Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers EUREC. He served as founding president of the German Energy Storage Association BVES (2012-16). He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Gauri Singh is a career bureaucrat with an experience of over thirty years in policy formulation, implementation and policy advocacy in the field of renewable energy, sustainable development and livelihoods. She has worked at the federal level in the Government of India and in Madhya Pradesh. At the federal level, particularly in the field of new and renewable energy, she has vast experience of policy formulation, coordination, and international cooperation. Policy initiatives led by her include, the policy framework of National Solar Mission of India 2010, to build solar power capacities in India. More recently, she steered the rural development sector, in Madhya Pradesh. In this role she provided strategic guidance for planning and implementing large impact community led initiatives, for poverty reduction and sustainable development. She spearheaded the policy formulation, with a strong focus on climate resilience and adaptation, to support livelihoods of the existing self-help groups of 2 million poor women.

Shri Jatindra Nath Swain is the Additional Secretary in Government of India and currently holding the post of Managing Director of the Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI), which is a Government of India Enterprise set up in 2011 for implementation of National Solar Mission. Before joining SECI, Shri Swain worked as Joint Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) Government of India. Shri Swain joined SECI as the Managing Director in August, 2017 and since then he has been spearheading the schemes to develop renewable energy projects in India through various schemes of the Ministry. Under his leadership, SECI has been able to develop about 5 GW of solar and wind projects each and is currently in the process of auctioning 30 GW of solar & wind projects in next 2 years. Shri Swain is an IAS officer of 1988 Batch, Tamil Nadu Cadre and has held various key positions in the State of Tamil Nadu: these include Principal Secretary in Department of Food & Cooperation and Department of Public & General Administration, Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Commissioner of Land Administration, Commissioner of Revenue Administration & Disaster Management, Commissioner Technical Education, Commissioner Watershed & Soil Conservation and Collector in the districts of Perambalur and Paudukkottai. Shri Jatindra Nath Swain holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi and a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

A 1991 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, Manu Srivastava holds B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. Out of the 29 years of experience, Manu has worked for 14 years in energy sector and has lead path-breaking innovative projects in the field of Solar energy. His 750 MW Rewa Project has proved to be an inflection point in the history of Solar energy in India: it was the first project in the country to break grid parity; it is the only project in the country supplying power to an institutional customer - today Delhi Metro is running on this project. The project has been awarded World Bank Group’s President’s Award. The project has had the privilege of being recently inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India. Singapore Management University has developed a Case Study on Rewa Solar Project for their ‘Growing Infrastructure’ programme from the 2021 session. Solar Rooftop projects under the RESCO mode with the landmark tariff of below 2US cents/unit have established a new way of setting up solar rooftop projects in the country; this has enabled solar rooftops to be set up without any capital investment by the beneficiaries, they being colleges, health institutions, government buildings and lately MSMEs; the model is even being followed in Ghana & Guinea in West Africa. Prior to renewable energy, he steered the State of Madhya Pradesh in India to 24x7 power supply as Chairperson of all utilities of the State & MD of MP Power Management Company. He was primarily responsible for power procurement and maintaining energy supply. Before that, he worked in Government of India and looked after natural gas in Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas: distribution within the country, gas pipeline infrastructure, city gas programmes, international LNG contracts and transnational pipelines. Manu is passionate about theatre and international politics, apart from studying energy dynamics in the country.

Praveer Sinha is the CEO & Managing Director of The Tata Power Company Limited (TPC, Mumbai), India’s largest integrated power utility. The Company has its presence in all the segments of power sector viz. Fuel & logistics, Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Trading. It is one of the largest renewable energy companies in India and has developed the country’s first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology.

Mr. Sinha has nearly 34 years of experience in Generation and Distribution sector. He has been responsible for developing and setting up Greenfield and Brownfield Power plants in India and abroad. Prior to becoming the CEO & Managing Director of The Tata Power Company Limited, he has served as the CEO&MD of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), a Public Private Partnership (JV) of Tata Power and Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi from April’2012 to April’2018.

Mr. Sinha is also a strong votary of usage of technology and hence TATA Power-DDL has been a front runner in innovating and adopting several world class technologies. Apart from ensuring operational excellence, Mr. Sinha is extremely passionate towards the inclusive growth of the society and has implemented numerous sustainability programs focusing on women empowerment, skill development for youth and children, which has resulted in the multifold increase in the number of beneficiaries.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1984.
• Master in Business Law from National Law University, Bangalore in 1999-2002.
• A Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
• A visiting Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
• A distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Canada.

Sanjay Nagrare is the head of Business Development and Commercials, Renewable of Sembcorp Energy India Limited (SEIL) the India subsidiary of Sembcorp Group. Sanjay holds a graduate degree in civil engineering from IIT Bombay and a post graduate diploma from IIM Bangalore. He has over 25 years of professional experience in power sector in India and Europe. It spans across the both Renewable and Thermal sector. Prior to joining Sembcorp, he has worked with reputed organizations like Adani Power Limited, India Bulls Power Limited and Reliance Power Ltd.

A leading first-generation entrepreneur, Sumant Sinha is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power – one of India’s largest clean energy companies. Sumant founded ReNew Power in January 2011, with a vision to transform the way energy is produced and consumed in India. Since then, under his leadership, the company has grown exponentially and is today one of India’s premier renewable energy companies with an aggregate portfolio of more than 10 GW spread over more than 100 sites. ReNew has been funded by marquee investors including Goldman Sachs, CPPIB (largest Canadian pension fund), ADIA (sovereign wealth fund in Middle East) and JERA (leading Japanese utility), and has raised more than USD 6 billion of capital, both equity and debt. ReNew has emerged as one of the leading asset creators in the country over the last 5 years. It now generates one per cent of India’s total electricity annually, and in doing so helps mitigate half a per cent of India’s carbon emissions in a year.