KPMG ESG Conclave and Awards

Mr. Amit Tandon is the founder of Institutional Investor Advisory Services India Limited (IiAS) and has been its managing director since July 2011.
Before IiAS, he was the managing director and CEO of Fitch Ratings: India from October 2001 to June 2011. He also had oversight over Fitch Ratings Lanka. Prior to joining Fitch, he was with the ICICI group for 17 years (from May 1984 – September 2001), where he rotated through various roles and businesses including project finance, leasing, and the merchant banking division. His last role with the ICICI group was as head of investment banking at ICICI Securities.
He has been a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Money, Foreign Exchange and Government Securities Markets, a member of one of the working groups convened by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to review comments received on the Companies Act and the Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance constituted by SEBI, and is a member of the SEBI constituted ESG Committee as well as the Takeover Committee.  He is also a Member of the Governing Body of the Foundation for Audit Quality.
He studied economics at St Stephens College, Delhi and has an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi and has an MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Ms. Beroz Gazdar is a sustainability professional and was Sr. Vice President - Group Sustainability, Mahindra Group, supporting the various businesses of the Group for integrating 'sustainability’ in business operations and strategies. Backed by a corporate career spanning almost 40 years across various industries like Banking, Financial services, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Real Estate, etc., she headed various functions within organizations such as Secretarial, Legal, Resource Mobilization, Commercial, Logistics and preliminary co-ordination for setting up of SEZs. She also has experience in setting up International Operations, Negotiating Joint Ventures and driving Business Excellence.
She is seen as a ‘sustainability practitioner’ for the last several years having a clear understanding of the new and emerging challenges arising from climate change and the ability to develop processes and action plans for mitigating risks arising therefrom.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Mumbai and is a qualified Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She also holds a Diploma in CSR & Sustainability from the Swedish Institute of Management.

Mr. JB Mohapatra, a 1985-batch Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officer, was a member of the board that frames the policy for the Income Tax department. Mr. Mohapatra has served as a Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Ministry of Finance - Government of India from May 2021 to April 2022. He was with the Income Tax Department, AP & Telangana as a principal chief commissioner. He was also an Adviser to PSA (Principal Scientific Adviser) to the Government of India under the Cabinet Secretariat from May 2018-to February 2020. Mr. Mohapatra has also been a Joint Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology from 2013-2018.His term also includes Joint Secretary in Judges Inquiry Committee constituted by the Upper House of Parliament to lay charges against a Chief Justice of a High Court from 2010-2012.
His first appointment was with the Central, Head Quarter, Vigilance positions at Mumbai, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Commissioner Appeals at Delhi as an Assistant Commissioner, Deputy, Joint and Additional Commissioner.

Mr. Joe Phelan is Executive Director, Asia Pacific for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the global, CEO-led community of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working together to realize a net-zero, nature-positive, more equitable future. He is responsible for the engagement of ambitious companies from across Asia and Australasia in the World Business Council. He has supported collective action projects by business with demonstrable outcomes in areas such as climate change, energy transition, water risk, mobility and more resilient agriculture.
Prior to joining WBCSD, he held senior roles with the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum. Highlights included a series of special reports with the Financial Times on business and sustainable development, the development of the World Business & Development awards with the United Nations and International Chambers of Commerce, and delivery of programs in skills, inclusive business, and anti-corruption.

Kalpana was Former Chairman of J.P. Morgan, South and Southeast Asia. Kalpana was also a member of JPMorgan’s Asia Pacific Management Committee.
Kalpana serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hindustan Unilever Limited HSBC Holdings plc and Philip Morris International Inc.
Kalpana is also a Member of the Governing Board of Bharti Foundation and Foundation for Audit Quality (FAQ) and a Director of Generation India Foundation.
Prior to joining JPMorgan, India, Kalpana served in ICICI Group since 1975. Her last assignment included Vice Chair on the Board of ICICI Group Companies and Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank from 2001 to 2007. ICICI Bank is one of India’s largest private sector bank and has leadership positions in banking, insurance, asset management and private equity.
A graduate in science and law from Bombay University, Kalpana has been recognized by several International and National media for her role as one of the leading women professionals.

Dr. Mukund Rajan is the Chairperson of ECube Investment Advisors Private Limited, which focusses on ESG issues, and supports the ESG and Climate transition of Indian companies.
Prior to ECube, he served for 23 years with the Tata group, where he held a number of senior executive positions. He serves as the Chairperson of the Environment Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and is a member of the ESG Advisory Committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He has also served as the Chair of the India@75 Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Chair of the CII Core Group on China.
In 2007, the World Economic Forum honoured him as a Young Global Leader. He graduated from the Bachelor of Technology program at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1989. He received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he completed a Masters and Doctorate in International Relations.

Mr. OP Bhatt is an Independent Director on the boards of a variety of multinationals, including Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Tata Steel Limited, Tata Motors Limited and the non-executive Chairman of Greenko Energy Holdings, Mauritius, a leading Renewable Energy company and Aadhar Housing Finance Limited, which is one of the largest affordable housing finance companies in India.
He retired as the Chairman of State Bank Group, which includes State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest commercial bank; five associate banks in India; five overseas banks; SBI Life, the country’s largest private life insurer; SBI Capital Markets, India’s leading investment bank; SBI Fund Management; and other subsidiaries spanning diverse activities, from general insurance to custodial services. He led SBI during challenging times. Under his leadership, SBI rose on the global list rankings of Fortune 500.
He was also Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association, the apex body of Indian banks and has served as India’s economic diplomacy as government’s nominee on the India-US CEO Forum, Indo-French CEO Forum and Indo-Russia CEO Forum, forging links with a cross section of the world’s business leaders.
He is a seasoned and thoughtful leader. He was nominated Banker of the Year by Business Standard and Indian of the Year for Business in 2007 by CNN-IBN.
He is a Science graduate with a postgraduate in English Literature. He lives in Mumbai.

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize global capital for climate action. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board and some 200 organizations involved in its development and governance; working with the Chinese central bank on how to grow green bonds in China; and market development programs in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria and East Africa.
He is a member of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance, and was a member of its predecessors, the 2017 EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. He is also a member of green finance advisory groups in China, India, Mexico and Kazakhstan and an Advisory Board member of the International Sustainable Financial Centre in Prague.He has previously been a consultant on green bonds to the United Nations Secretary General, a member of the Peoples Bank of China Green Finance Task Force and a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Expert Committee on Climate Finance.
Sean is also a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London.
For the past three years he has been voted GlobalCapital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market.

Ms. Tanya Singhal is an entrepreneur & industry leader in the renewable energy sector. She founded and successfully sold SolarArise, a solar power producer, with its assets now listed as a part of a trust on the London Stock Exchange.
Tanya started her entrepreneurial journey in her twenties and raised over Rs 2000 Cr of equity and debt capital. She built and led teams to develop, execute and operate large-scale grid-connected solar plants across India. She actively worked with the Indian Government (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) to shape and evolve India’s renewable energy policy over a decade.
As one of the few successful women entrepreneurs in the climate and infrastructure space, she has been recognized through prestigious awards such as Business World 40 under 40, Asia’s Most Influential Women in Renewable Energy, Woman of the Year in Solar, etc.
She started her career as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and holds a Bachelor in Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Her goal is to move the world towards carbon neutrality, towards an emission-free lifestyle, and bring more women into this journey. She is also on the board of Milaan, an NGO supporting underprivileged adolescent girls who aspire to excel professionally.

Mr. Tejinderpal Miglani is an investor, advisor, and mentor to growing companies, helping passionate teams solve their growth challenges and achieve their potential. An angel investor for over a decade, Tejinder is a long-time member of the Indian Angel Network, a part of many syndicates, and a founding member of Climate Angels, an angel group focused on investing in climate tech. Extremely passionate about the environment, he believes that businesses need to be built without the assumption that nature is free. Also, that the solution to the world’s environmental challenges will be through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Tejinderpal Miglani co-founded Incedo Inc., a global technology business focused on analytics and emerging technologies. His work at Incedo has helped him understand the mind of customers, where technology trends are moving, and how technology is being adopted by businesses. With a B. Tech degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA degree from IIM Calcutta, he is equal parts Tech enthusiast, environmentalist, and businessman. Prior to creating Incedo, he was the founding CTO of Indiabulls, where he worked on creating an Internet trading platform that became a technological benchmark for the industry.Tejinder has lived across all large metros of India, including Delhi and Calcutta, and spent extensive time traveling across the U.S. While traveling, he loves to discover the unique architectures of new places. He is also deeply involved with organizations that help families pay for expensive medical care to treat children with life-threatening illnesses.