International Stakeholder Conference 2026

Director of The Study School, CEO of SWP Productions, and a Partner at ILA Pasrich & Co. LLP.

Conference Presenter

Shivani Wazir Pasrich is the Director of The Study School, CEO of SWP Productions, and a Partner at ILA Pasrich & Co. LLP. An accomplished actress, lawyer, activist, educationist, Odissi dancer, and arts patron, she is also a former Miss India Worldwide. She holds an  Economics (Hons.) degree from Lady Shri Ram College and a Law degree from the Faculty of  Law, University of Delhi.

As Chairperson of the Commonwealth Society of India and Founder  of the Commonwealth Cultural Forum, she promotes cultural exchange and creative 
collaboration across the Commonwealth. Her acting credits include Yash Chopra's National  Award-winning film Dil To Pagal Hai, alongside more than 500 television appearances and  over 1,000 live events as a distinguished master of ceremonies.

She also serves on the  governing boards of organizations supporting underprivileged children and people with epilepsy. She has received the Build India Award, the Global Human Rights Award, and  recognition from the Education Minister for her contributions to sustainable education and  social impact.

Vice President, Sustainability Consulting at Sphera Solutions

Panel Moderator & Session Lead

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh works in the capacity of Vice President, Sustainability Consulting with Sphera (India, APAC & Middle East), founding the LCA and EPD concepts in India for two decades. He brings more than 34 years of experience in Life Cycle Assessment, sustainability strategy, decarbonization, ESG, GHG accounting, Scope 3 accounting, product carbon footprint (PCF), CBAM, Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), eco-design, and green product certification.

His profile combines deep technical expertise with senior leadership and business strategy experience, with a growing focus on LCA and product carbon footprint solutions for industrial clients. Across his career, he has helped more than 1000 companies build ESG frameworks, carried out GHG accounting and net zero strategies for over 200 companies, and led more than 800 LCA, EPD, and decarbonization studies across sectors including steel, aluminium, mining, glass, energy, textiles, agriculture, packaging, automotive, chemicals, and building materials. His experience also includes energy transition technologies such as green hydrogen, renewables, electrification, fuel efficiency, waste heat recovery, biomass, and fuel switching, along with certification under CDM, VCS, and Gold Standard.

He has led sustainability consulting functions that also support software sales and implementation, including SCCS Solutions and LCA FE solutions, with responsibility for regional productivity, profitability, and business growth. He serves as Sphera’s key global steel sector expert and CBAM Lead, having delivered multiple bilateral GHG and CBAM engagements for steel, aluminium, fertiliser, and other ferrous and non-ferrous companies. He holds a Civil Engineering degree, a Master’s in Environmental Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a PhD in Sustainability Management from IIT Bombay.

Founder of Monk Spaces

Keynote Speaker

Mili Jain is the Founder of Monk Spaces, a consultancy focused on life cycle assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Her work focuses on supporting manufacturers, startups, and product innovators in assessing and communicating the environmental performance of their products, while helping expand the adoption of credible environmental data in the Indian market. She has worked on LCA studies and EPD development across multiple industries, including helping companies navigate emerging expectations around environmental transparency and product-level data. She has also contributed to international standard development through work on revisions to PCR 2019:14 under the EPD International system.

Senior Advisor – Climate Change and Circular Economy at GIZ

Keynote Speaker

Vaibhav Rathi is a Senior Advisor at GIZ, with over 14 years of experience in the development sector, specializing in circular economy and climate change. He currently serves as the Co-Lead of the IKI India Interface Project, which evaluates the climate impacts of national and state policies—such as the ban on single-use plastics—and supports decarbonisation of the cement and steel industries through technical studies and pilot projects. He has led the commercialization of LC3 cement in India and has played a key role in shaping India’s resource efficiency policy, as well as state and city-level frameworks for the circular use of fly ash, construction and demolition (C&D) waste, and organic waste. Vaibhav authored a report on first-ever market survey of C&D waste across 10 Indian cities and contributed significantly to the GHRIHA certification of India’s first C&D waste-based construction product. He has also led award-winning implementation projects that brought systemic improvements to municipal solid waste management.

Vaibhav has worked extensively with national ministries, government institutions, multiple state governments, and both private and public sector stakeholders, supporting the adoption of low-carbon and circular solutions at policy and operational levels. He is also a published author and reviewer and has contributed articles to leading newspapers on waste management, plastics, and circular economy issues.

At GIZ, he advises and manages projects focused on Climate Change, circular economy, municipal and plastic waste management.

Programme Management Officer at UNEP

Panellist

Archana Datta is an environmental professional with over 17 years of experience in capacity building and advocacy, focusing on mainstreaming Circular Economy, Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), and Life Cycle Thinking. She currently serves as Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), India Country Office.

Previously, Archana acted as the Coordinator of Life Cycle Initiative, hosted by UNEP, the Asian Institute of Technology, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. In these roles, she was instrumental in planning and implementing regional, sub-regional, and national activities involving policymakers, private sector stakeholders, and consumers on SCP and Circular Economy with a focus on plastics and textile sectors.

Archana holds a Master of Science in Environment Management and is a certified lead auditor for ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards. She also possesses a certificate in Climate Change Economics and Governance from the London School of Economics

Professor and Head of Environmental Science and Technology Department at IIT Bombay

Panellist

Prof. Munish K. Chandel is Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. With over two decades of academic and research experience, his expertise encompasses sustainable waste management, landfill mining, legacy waste valorization, waste-to-energy systems, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), greenhouse gas mitigation, resource recovery, and life cycle assessment (LCA).

His research focuses on developing circular economy solutions by recovering energy, materials, and critical resources from waste streams to support climate mitigation and sustainable industrial development. His current work integrates systems-level sustainability assessment with innovative technologies in landfill mining, anaerobic digestion, bioenergy, critical minerals recovery, and CCUS.

Prof. Chandel received his B.Tech. from NIT Hamirpur and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Bombay, he served as Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee and previously held research positions at Duke University (USA), École des Mines de Nantes (France), and Dalhousie University (Canada).

Founder & CEO at Metsims Sustainability Consulting and CageSuite Limited

Keynote Speaker & Panellist

Dr Hüdai Kara is the Founder & CEO of Metsims Sustainability Consulting and CageSuite Limited. With more than 25 years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), carbon management, resource efficiency, materials science and sustainability data systems, he has worked extensively at the intersection of environmental science, industry and digitalisation. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the International EPD System and holds a DPhil in Materials Science from the University of Oxford. His current work focuses on scalable environmental-data infrastructure, localized life cycle inventory databases, AI-supported LCA, and the integration of EPD information into emerging digital product systems.

Founder and CEO of SustainAble Solutions

Moderator

Dr. Gyanendra Kumar Atri is the Founder and CEO of SustainAble Solutions, a sustainability advisory firm specializing in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and product-level decarbonisation strategies. With over a decade of experience across consulting, industry, research, and academia, he has led sustainability and LCA projects for organisations across Asia, Europe, and global supply chains, including cross-border assessments such as fertilizer supply chains from Kazakhstan to the United Kingdom.

Dr. Atri actively collaborates with international sustainability initiatives and is a Steering Committee Member of the UNEP-hosted Life Cycle Initiative and a Master Trainer under the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) programme. He is also associated with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as a technical expert and assessor, supporting the adoption of international sustainability standards and advancing LCA capacity across emerging markets.

Co-Founder and CEO at Emidat

Moderator

Lisa is the co-founder and CEO of Emidat, a climate-native product management solution for manufacturers. Emidat automates the creation, publication and use of LCAs, EPDs and DPPs. They already serve 150+ of the largest manufacturers in Europe and Asia in 20+ markets and have a strong focus on leveraging this data as a business benefit. Lisa started her involvement in climate technologies in 2018 when she co-founded an initiative for sustainable entrepreneurship. She wrote her thesis on carbon pricing along supply chains at MIT and works on reducing the impact of manufacturing on climate change since 2020.

Founder and Technical Lead at One Carbon Labs

Moderator

Mohan M S is the Founder and Technical Lead of One Carbon Labs, a sustainability consulting firm specializing in Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Product Declarations, Product Carbon Footprints, ESG strategy, carbon management, and green building services. He is a Certified openLCA Trainer and Certified GHG Lead Verifier for ISO 14064, with experience across LCA, EPD, carbon intensity analysis, carbon removal projects, biochar MRV, clean fuels, construction products, pharmaceuticals, electric mobility, and industrial sustainability.

Previously, Mohan worked with ICF Consulting India, Evalueserve, and General Carbon Advisory Services, where he led and supported LCA studies, carbon footprint assessments, LCFS pathway applications, EPD projects, and sustainability advisory assignments for clients across India, the US, and other global markets. Through One Carbon Labs, he is actively working to strengthen LCA and EPD adoption in India by supporting industry projects, training professionals, and building capacity for credible environmental transparency.

Managing Director of EPD MENA

Session Lead

Nasser Ayoub is the Managing Director of EPD MENA, Co-founder of EPD Egypt and an accredited EPD Verifier, Professor, Senior Lead Environmental Consultant and a Certified LCA Professional and UNFCCC Roster of Experts Member.

Dr. Ayoub has more than 30 years of comprehensive academic and professional experience in seven different countries (Holland, Japan, Saudi, Qatar, USA, and Kuwait). He holds a Doctor of Environmental Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in the field of Environmentally Friendly Supply Chains and Life Carbon Footprint.

In this capacity as MD of EPD MENA and Professor, he also a leading trainer and educator, dedicated to building local capacity in critical sustainability assessment tools.

Since early 2024, Dr. Ayoub has focused extensively on training and consultancy, specializing in the interconnected areas of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), Carbon Footprint (CFP), and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). He has developed and delivered numerous training programs that equip industry professionals with the skills to quantify environmental impacts with several international organizations such as IFC, EBRD, USAID, GIZ and UNIDO. 

Founder of the Centre for LCA and Sustainable Design

Session Lead

Dr. Nydia Suppen is Founder of the Centre for LCA and Sustainable Design (cadis.earth), Vice-chair of ISO TC207/SC5 on Life Cycle Assessment standards, and a certified international Trainer of Trainers in LCA, carbon and water footprinting, and ecolabeling. For nearly three decades, Dr. Suppen has led, supervised, participated in, and critically reviewed hundreds of LCAs and EPDs across multiple sectors and regions around the world.

She has trained graduated more than 300 high-level experts worldwide through her ToT programmes, and has designed specialized diploma programs and executive trainings using gamified and reverse-thinking methodologies such as “LCA in Reverse” to simplify complex concepts for non-LCA experts and decision-makers.

Some of her work relevant to this training includes the development of life cycle-based green purchasing tools for North America under the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), co-authorship of UNEP guidance and training materials including the Policymaker’s Guide to Life Cycle Assessment, and capacity-building initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America related to LCA, circularity, ecolabeling and sustainable lifestyles.

Co-founder at Circa Technologies

Session Lead

Steven MacMaster is Co-founder at Circa Technologies, a U.S. startup which created the next generation LCA studio & data distribution platform. He is also a researcher specializing on the impact of AI on LCA data quality.

Founder & Lead Verifier at Eco-Assure

Session Lead

Vijay Thakur is an EPD & LCA verifier with 10 years of professional experience in product sustainability, greenhouse gas accounting, and environmental performance assessment. Vijay has worked across various sectors including construction materials, chemicals, and metals. His verification and assurance experience also extends to product carbon footprints (PCF), organizational level greenhouse gas inventories, and sustainability reporting and assurance engagements, including BRSR-aligned disclosures. Vijay is an approved EPD verifier with EPD International, EPD Global, PEP Ecopassport, Kiwa, & Smart EPD.

Senior Director, Sustainability Consulting at Sphera Solutions

Session Lead

Ritesh Agrawal is Senior Director of Sustainability Consulting at Sphera, with nearly 18 years of experience helping organizations build more sustainable and resilient businesses and products. He specializes in life cycle assessment (LCA), product carbon footprint (PCF), GHG accounting, ESG strategy, and CBAM compliance, advising global companies on practical decarbonization strategies, carbon footprint reduction, and evolving ESG and climate reporting requirements. Recognized for his collaborative approach and deep industry expertise, Ritesh helps organizations turn sustainability ambitions into measurable business outcomes and long-term value.