Speakers at International Conference 2026
Thought leaders and changemakers shaping the future of water, energy, and climate resilience. Join them to transform dialogue into action.
High Level Speakers Confirmed
Shri Om Birla
Hon'ble Speaker
Lok Sabha, India
Sh. Harsh Malhotra
Minister of state
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India
Sh. Raj Bhushan Chaudhary
Minister of state
Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India
Mr. Loïc Fauchon
President
World Water Council
Dr Eric Tardieu
Director General, International Office of Water
Secretary General, International Network of Basin Organisations
Vice President, World Water Council
Mr. Alex Simalabwi
Executive Secretary & CEO
Global Water Partnership
H.H. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual Head
Isha Foundation
H.H. Acharya Dr. Lokesh Muni Ji
Founder
Ahimsa Vishwa Bharti
Ms. Sonja Koeppel
Secretary
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes
Environment Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Dr. Satya Tripathi
Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP)
Prof. Rabi Mohtar
Governor, World Water Council
Director, Water Security,
Texas Water Resources Institute
Texas A & M University
Mr. Alain Meyssonnier
President, Mediterranean Water Institute
Governor, World Water Council
Ms. Ulrike Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
Mr. Roi Chiti
Regional Coordinator - Pacific Islands States, India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives
UN- Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP)
Mr. James Dalton
Director, Global Water & Wetlands Team
IUCN
Mr. Amit Ghosh
Additional Chief Secretary
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Mr. Sampath Kumar
CEO
Meghalaya Basin Development Authority
Ms. Mikiko Tanaka
Director & Head
SSWA Office - UN ESCAP
Dr. Arvind Kumar
President & Founder
India Water Foundation
Shri Anil Gupta
General Secretary
Delhi RSS
Prof. Sachin Kumar Sharma
Director General
RIS
Sh. Rakesh Jain
Akhil Bhartiya sah sanyojak paryavaran sanrakshan gatividhi rashtriy swayamsevak Sangh
Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
Dr. Alok K Sikka
Country Representative, India & Bangladesh
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Mr. Vinod Mishra
Country Director
UNOPS
Mr. Pradeep S Mehta
Secretary General
CUTS International
Dr. Ritesh Kumar
Director
Wetlands International South Asia
Dr. Sanjay Vashistha
Director
Climate Action Network South Asia
Mr. Anand Shekhar
Chief Executive Officer
Water Aid India
Ms. Bharti Birla
Enterprise Development Specialist
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Mr. Ratnesh Jha
Executive Director
UN Global Compact India
Ms. Deepali Khanna
Sr. Vice President and Head of Asia
The Rockerfeller Foundation
Dr. Nidhi Pundir
Senior Vice President,
Global CSR - HCL Tech
Director - HCL Foundation
Mr. Saumitra Srivastava
Director (Marketing)
Indian Oil
Distinguished Speakers Confirmed
Sh. Yugal Kishore Joshi
Programme Director
Drinking Water & Sanitation, IT & Telecom,
Tourism & Culture, Water & Land Resources
Lead-Communication and NER-NITI Aayog
Mr. Rajan Ratna
Former Deputy Head South and South West Asia Office- UN ESCAP
Mr. Casper Mayland
Counsellor,
Environment / Political and
Economic Section
Royal Danish Embassy, New Delhi
Mr. Levente Kardos
Economic and Commercial Counselor
Embassy of Hungary, New Delhi
Shri Shravan Goyal
Vice President,
Sewa Bharti (Al India)
Founder,
Ganga Sewa Sansthan
Col. Akhilesh Kumar Pandey
Chief Post Master General
Delhi Circle
India Post, Government of India
Ms. Sara Casillas Ramirez
Forestry Officer
FAO
Ms Veena Sinha
Divisional Railway Manager
Izzat Nagar Division
North Eastern Railways, Ministry of Railways
Government of India
Dr. Manoj Nessari
Advisor (Ayurveda)
Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India
Dr. Virinder Sharma
Member (Technical)
Commission for Air Quality Management
Government of India
Ms. Nidhi Nagabathla
Professor
Un University, Belgium
Ms. Surabhi Gupta
Chief General Manager
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
Mr. Anshul Jain
Senior Expert, Water and SWM European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC)
Mr. Abhishek Gupta
Head-International Appliances Rooftop Solar & PE & A Energy Efficiency Services Ltd.
Ms. Anjali Makhija
CEO & Trustee
S M Sehgal Foundation
Dr. Sutirtha Sahariah
Senior Vice President
Head of Communications
Sulabh International
Mr. Amit Kumar
Chairman
AI Engineering Services Ltd.
Prof. (Dr.) Anil Gupta
Professor - ICARS
Govt. of India DST & MoEFCC
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R)
Prof. Medha Bisht
Associate Professor
South Asian University
Mr. Ash Pachauri
Director & Co-Founder
POP Movement
Ranjeet Pandey
Chairman
ESG and Sustainability Board, ICSI
Mr. Sanmit Ahuja
Director
Climate and Energy Transition finance Initiative (CETFI)
Prof. Kshemendra K Upadhyay
Professor & Chairperson
BIMTECH
Centre for Sustainability & CSR
Ms. Kalyani Raj
Patron
All India Women’s Conference
Ms. Bhawana Kirpal Mittal
CHRO & Lead-IT Admin & CSR
Hero Future Energies
Ms. Varinder Gambhir
Country Director
BBC Media Action
Ms. Ambika Vishwanath
Co-Founder
Kubernein Initiative
Ms. Neha Gupta
Founder
IFBEC
Prof. Srinivas Chary Vedala
CEO
Wash Innovation Hub
Dr. Sharaman Jha
CEO
Hindustan Uniliver Foundation
Mr. Soma Katiyar
Executive Creative Director
BBC Media Action
Ms. Sarika Gosain
Partner & Leader
ESG & Sustainability
Pierag Consulting
Dr. Ajit Tyagi
Honorary Patron & Chairman
The Committee on Climate Change
Smt. Stuti Kacker
Honorary Patron & Chairman
The Committee on Water and Human Development
Mr. M. P. Singh
Chief Advisor
India Water Foundation
Prof. Ashok K. Keshari
Institutional Partner
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Dr. T. S. Bisht
Chief Technical Advisor
Economic Development
Dr. Hitesh Vaidya
Chief Technical Advisor
India Water Foundation
Dr. S. K. Sharma
Principal Advisor
India Water Foundation
Dr. Veena Khanduri
Senior Advisor Executive Secretary - cum - Country Coordinator, India Water Partnership (IWP)
Mr. Pankaj Sharma
Senior Consultant
Former Director of Green Wattage
Mr. Sunny Pandya
Chief Advisor -National Strategy & State Leadership
India Water Foundation
Mr. Lalit Mohan Sharma
Advisor
S M Sehgal Foundation
CS Deepak Jain
Founder – Vijayash Foundation
Board Member & Chairman
ESG
Committee - Noida Management Association (NMA)
Mr. Depinder Kapur
Heads
Climate Centre for Cities(C-Cube)
National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)
Mr. Prabhjot Sodhi
Senior Programme Director
Circular Economy
Centre for Environment Education
Mr. Ravi Singh
Secretary General & CEO
WWF India
Dr. Aakash Shrivastava
Additional Director
Centre for Environmental & Occupational Health,
Climate Change & Health
National Centre for Disease Control
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India
Dr. Swayamprabha Das
Associate Vice President & Lead Policy & Planning Development Alternatives
Mr. Chetan Agarwal
Forest and Environment Analyst
IAM Gurgaon
Mr. Chandan Kumar Thakur
Senior Vice President - Marketing
Vassar Labs IT Solutions
Mr. Anupam Ghosh
Managing Director
Anondita Medicare Limited
Sh. S. A Verma
Executive Director/Environment
DMRC
Dr. Paras R. Pujari
Scientist G & Head
Water & Earth Systems
CSIR-NEERI
Dr. Debajit Palit
Head - Centre for Climate Change & Energy Transition
Climate Research Foundation
Ms. Swati Verma
Assistant Professor
ISID
Debaranjan Pujahari
Lead
Agriculture and Water Practice Area at Sattva
Soma Katiyar
Executive Creative
Director - BBC MA
Manjusha Manchala
Founder
Urban Forge Labs
Swapnil Chaturvedi
Director
Pragrammes, WaterAid
Ms. Monika
Prime Minister Fellow
CSIR- CSIO, Chandigarh
Mr. Anoop Dongre
Research Scholar
IIT- Delhi
Ms. Kavita Prasad
Senior Consultant
India Water Foundation
Mr. Parth Bhatt
Chairperson
ECB Sustainable Youth Foundation
Dr. Swati Tak
Environment Engineer
Naksha Innovative Solutions
Ms. Hiranya Tallam
Program Manager
Wash Innovation Hub
Dr. Devansh Parag Desai
Assistant Professor
Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad
Dr. Atun Roy Choudhury
Technical Head
Unison i3x
Dr. Soma Mishra
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
MIT-World Peace University, Pune
Dr. Debolina Kundu
Director
National
Institute of Urban Affairs
(NIUA), New Delhi
Dr C.R. Babu
Professor
Emeritus, Centre for
Environmental
Management of
Degraded Ecosystems
(CEMDE), Delhi
University
Ms. Archana Chatterjee
Program Manager
IUCN
India
Dr Mahreen Matto
Team Lead
NIUA Delhi
Ms. Nidhi Batra
Biodiversity
Conservation and Blue
Economy Portfolio
Manager
Agence
Française de
Développement (AFD),
New Delhi
Dr. Pushp Bajaj
Program Lead
Climate
Resilience, Council on
Energy, Environment
and Water (CEEW)
Mr. Jaidev
Joshi
Program Officer,
IUCN India
Dr. Gopal Kumar
Country Representative
(Interim)
IWMI
Mr. Suresh Babu
Director
River Basins & Water Policy at WWF-India
Dr. Priyadarshi Dash
Associate Professor
Research and Information System for Developing Countries
