Understanding India’s Water Conundrum with Author and Investor Mridula Ramesh

Mridula Ramesh is the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions and education. She is a leading cleantech angel investor, with a portfolio of over fifteen start-ups, and is involved in multiple initiatives to build climate entrepreneurship. The author of the critically acclaimed The Climate Solution: India’s Climate Change Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Mridula writes regularly on climate issues. She is involved in high-level policy discussions at national, state and municipal levels and is a part of India–US and India–UK Track II dialogues on climate change and energy and was the Co-Chair of the adaptation and resilience working group in the latest India–UK Track II dialogue. She is the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh; part of the Board of Trustees, World Wildlife Fund; and Member, Advisory Group, UNDP National Circular Economy Project and of the CII National Sub-Committee on Sustainable Textiles, among other memberships. A graduate with distinction from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Mridula worked at McKinsey in Silicon Valley before returning to India. She teaches a postgraduate class on climate change at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, regularly speaks at national/international forae on climate issues, and is a frequent jury member in climate-tech startup competitions. She is the executive director of Sundaram Textiles and lives and experiments in Madurai in a net-zero-waste home with her husband and two children. Follow her on Twitter@mimiramesh