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Long-term operational leadership

A twenty-six year record of directing complex multi-stakeholder projects in sectors (incl. corporate, philanthropies, UN-led agencies, NGOs, governmental projects) and across the global South (incl. India, South America, South Asia), managing impactful projects, delivering outcomes in cross-cutting projectized environments, incl: forestry, climate, ESG, SDGs, agri-food systems, social impact.

CAREER TRAJECTORY

Global Multilateral Interventions

A chronological record of steering high-stakes operational governance, capital efficiency, and programmatic execution across global industries.

Barli Development Institute for Rural Women

2006 - 2010

Chief operating officer

Institutional scaling & executive capability building

Maintain 16-year operational and financial ownership, directing programmatic growth, audit compliance, and multi-state operations.

Deployed community-scale clean energy and climate resilience systems across five states, benefiting over 15,000 rural communities.

Structured international donor alliances with Harvard University, SIDA, and the University of Reading, securing multi-year programmatic funding.

Architected the flagship 2-year PGDM and Project Management specializations, driving 200%+ revenue growth and training 1,200+ management professionals in Sustainability, ESG and analytics.

2005-2006

Climate vulnerability & risk assessment

Managed an interdisciplinary research team evaluating invasive species proliferation and climate vulnerability across protected Western Ghats buffer zones.

Synthesized spatial and field data with UN environmental conventions to deliver an actionable protected-area risk mitigation plan.

Published and presented baseline modelling methodologies at international symposia.

Principal investigator | Smithsonian Institution & IISc Bangalore

2010 - PRESENT

Assistant professor & program architect | IPER, Bhopal

National policy codification & multilateral PMO

Project manager & Project fellow | Indian Institute of Forest Management, ITTO (Japan) & UN-FAO

2000-2003

Co-founded the Bhopal-India Process and codified Sustainable Forest Management Criteria & Indicators into India’s National Forest Working Plan Code across 8 states, backed by multi-million-dollar intergovernmental funding secured from ITTO (Japan).

Engineered the Cardinal Grid Method to execute a 308,250 sq. km assessment of Trees Outside Forests across Madhya Pradesh, authoring the definitive technical report published globally by the UN-FAO.

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