Work Overview

Samrat Sengupta

Samrat is a development and operations management professional with 24 years of exposure in sustainable energy and climate change cross-sectoral domains. He has managed business (SBU) / program verticals, with a specific interest in renewable energy power projects, low carbon development and mainstreaming climate change in developmental planning. He has worked with independent power producers and power project (solar, onshore and offshore wind, and hydro) developers, management and engineering consulting houses, international trade associations for renewable energy promotion, national and international civil society organizations, and government research institutions.

Samrat holds an MBA with a specialization in energy management from the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISW&BM), Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Science with Physics Honours from the University of Calcutta. He has also been trained in the GHG Protocol in the United States in 2002 , and in Climate Change Science, Impacts and Responses from Imperial College, London in 2004.

His passion lies in low carbon development and climate change mitigation. He has substantial exposure in programme and project planning, execution, and policy advocacy. He has also represented Indian and South Asian civil society in various multilateral forums like the UNFCCC, IPCCand G8.

Email samrat.sengupta@cseindia.org

Jasleen Bhatti

Jasleen is a sustainability enthusiast with over ten years of hands-on experience in renewable energy and climate change. She is proficient in analysing RE trends, regulations & policies; identifying opportunities to reduce emissions with a focus on climate change & sustainability. She has extensive experience in research and project management of RE & EV based projects; worked on multi-Cr. projects supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), GIZ, Ministry of Science & Technology, Shakti Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and OPM Research Programme in the areas of cross border power trade in South Asian countries, developing low carbon pathways for sustainable development, and sectoral state level interventions for achieving India's NDC goals.

Prior to joining CSE, she had previously worked as a consultant with the Power Systems & Energy Modelling Team at Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe). She has also worked as an Assistant Professor, Energy Department and Project Facilitator, Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at EMPI Business School, New Delhi. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor – Green Chemistry at Northern India Engineering College, IP University. Jasleen has also worked with FITT at IIT Delhi and was involved in facilitating technology transfer from the academia to the industry. She collaborated with the Ministry of Science and Technology on Mission Innovation (MI) IC #1 - Smart Grids Innovation Challenge Resource Unit, performing scientific and technical analysis, management, and coordination for MI IC #1.She has co-authored a global compilation report titled "Synergy" with the research strategies of 14 MI member countries (Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden and the US) towards Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment (RDDD) in the area of smart grids.

She holds a Master's in Analytical Chemistry from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra and a Ph.D. in Energy from the Centre for Energy Studies (CES), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT D).

Email: jasleen.bhatti@cseindia.org

Binit Kumar Das

Binit is a Power & Renewable Energy professional with over 9 years of experience and has demonstrated competencies through successful project management, management consulting, bid management, lenders engineer, green entrepreneurship and skill development. Experienced working with people in the least developed nations, big corporate houses, government organizations, state funding agencies, urban local bodies, and treaty-based intergovernmental organizations.

He has also been certified in Energy analytics, Resource assessor of Small & Mini Hydro Power Projects from AHEC, IIT Roorkee. Being an Alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta on Executive Programme in Applied Finance, he is having cutting-edge knowledge in the frontiers of Infrastructure and Energy Financing.

Prior to his role as a Deputy Programme Manager at CSE, he has worked with KPMG Advisory, International Solar Alliance, and Darashaw Infrastructure consultancy. He has worked on resource and developed Techno-Economic viability of projects, transaction advisory services for energy efficient street lighting through ESCO mode, conducted load research and analysis for DISCOMs, developed roadmap, and institutional framework for implementing “One Sun One World One Grid” and assisted ISA secretariat in conceptualizing “World Solar Bank”, an MDB dedicated to financing Solar Projects.

Binit holds an MBA with a specialization in Power Management from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering.

Email: binit.das@cseindia.org

Sumedha Awasthy

Sumedha Awasthy, has 4 years of experience in renewable energy, climate change, rural enterprise capacity building and energy efficiency sector.

Prior to joining Centre for Science and Environment as Programme Officer – Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Sumedha worked at International Institute for Energy Conservation, where she was engaged in SAPCC Revision and Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Framework in Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. She worked on OPM funded project ‘Community Led Action Plan on Climate Change in Chhattisgarh. Also, she was a team member in project “GHG accounting and Capacity Building for the Cities of Jaipur, Bhopal, Mysore, Vijayawada and Guntur”. She was part of the team for the OPM funded project “Supporting Farmer Producer Companies for Value Chain Development in Maharashtra” in which she supported the Government of Maharashtra in designing an indicator based, Comprehensive FPC Rating Tool and trained the government staff on the same. Further she designed training modules for FPC’s on how to make bankable business models. She was part of the team to prepare “The India Energy Productivity Roadmap project which will convene a high-level Commission of India’s public and private sector leaders to establish a national plan for doubling India’s energy productivity.

Sumedha holds a master’s degree in Resource Management and Design Application from University of Delhi, India and has completed the Harvard Business School Program on sustainable business strategies.

Email: sumedha.a@cseindia.org