30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
Mridula Ramesh is the author of critically acclaimed, The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It. She is founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions and education. She is an active angel investor in cleantech start-ups, with a portfolio of over 15 start-ups. Ramesh sits on several angel management groups, including the Indian Angels and the Chennai Angels, and is involved in several initiatives to spur entrepreneurship to build climate resilience. A graduate with distinction of Cornell University (with majors in Chemistry and Microbiology) with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, she worked at McKinsey in Silicon Valley before returning to India. She writes regularly on climate change, with her columns appearing in Firstpost and earlier in The Hindu, Live Mint, Bloomberg Quint and Conde Nast. She is the Executive Director of Sundaram Textiles and lives and experiments in Madurai in a net zero-waste house with her husband and two children. She is part of the Advisory Committee, UNDP India National Circular Economy Project, and the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, of NIT, Andhra Pradesh.
