W0MEN ACHIEVER IN SUSTANABILITY

As the MD & at Green Business Certification Institute and Senior VP at U.S Green Building Council since 2016, I am responsible for the technical adaptation and customization of LEED (and GBCI's suite of nearly 10 certification programs) for the Asia Pacific region. Within a span of 5, years I have helped deliver a LEED and WELL Platinum certified space for GBCI India and have led the development of multiple rating systems which are helping foster environmentally sustainable, resilient, socially equitable and healthy developments both in India and around the globe. This has included leading technical developments for several key organisational programmes, including LEED for Cities and Communities, LEED Zero, LEED Residential, PEER etc. Between 1992 -2016, I worked at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, where as a Senior Director and Senior Research Fellow in the Sustainable Habitat Division, I set up large programs on Sustainable Habitats (on advocacy and policy, research and development, training and advisory and operationalizing the National rating System on Green Buildings for India). I was instrumental in setting up a Centre of Excellence on Sustainable habitats and nurtured several strategic partnerships and alliances with public and private sector including global and multinational organizations (including UN). I have led a team to conceptualise and develop an indigenous system for green building rating “Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA)”, which was adopted as the national rating system for green buildings by the Government of India in 2007. The program was fully conceptualised and implemented under my leadership for over a decade. I served as a technical expert for the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat. I am a member of various Committees for formulation of Energy Conservation Building Code, Bureau of Indian Standards for revision and updating of National Building Code of India and for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF &CC) in environmental clearance of new construction projects and new industrial estates.