All Speakers 2026
The thought leaders and changemakers who shaped the 2nd Edition dialogue on water, energy, health and environment.
High Level Speakers
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
Dr. Arvind Kumar
President & Founder
India Water Foundation
Ms. Shweta Tyagi
Chief Functionary, India Water Foundation
H.H. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual Head
Isha Foundation
Mr. Loïc Fauchon
President
World Water Council
Ms. Ulrike Kelm
Deputy Executive Director
International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
Dr. Satya Tripathi
Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP)
Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
Ms. Bharti Birla
Enterprise Development Specialist
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Mr. Saumitra Srivastava
Director (Marketing)
Indian Oil
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
Ms. Sonja Koeppel
Secretary
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes
Environment Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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
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. Amit Ghosh
Additional Chief Secretary
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Mr. Sampath Kumar
CEO
Meghalaya Basin Development Authority
Shri Anil Gupta
General Secretary
Delhi RSS
Dr. Alok K Sikka
Country Representative, India & Bangladesh
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Mr. Pradeep S Mehta
Secretary General
CUTS International
Dr. Ritesh Kumar
Director
Wetlands International South Asia
Dr. Nidhi Pundir
Senior Vice President,
Global CSR - HCL Tech
Director - HCL Foundation
Distinguished Speakers
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
Dr. Virinder Sharma
Member (Technical)
Commission for Air Quality Management
Government of India
Ms. Surabhi Gupta
Chief General Manager
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
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. 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. Neha Gupta
Founder
IFBEC
Ms. Sarika Gosain
Partner & Leader
ESG & Sustainability
Pierag Consulting
Mr. M. P. Singh
Chief Advisor
India Water Foundation
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
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
Ms. 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
Ms. Hiranya Tallam
Program Manager
Wash Innovation Hub
Dr. Devansh Parag Desai
Assistant Professor
Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad
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
Mr Rishi Srivastava
Consultant
ICID
Mr. Ravi Prakash
Wetland Specialist
Wetlands International South Asia
Mrs. Pratibha Pandya
Founder
Dian Foundation & Holistic Wellness Practitioner
Dr. Uday Bhonde
Senior Programme Specialist
NIUA
Ms. Yogita Lokhande
Programme Component Manager
GIZ, India
Mr. Gopal Prasad Patel
Research Scholar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Delhi
Ms. Pooja O. Murada
Principal Lead (Outreach for Development)
SM Sehgal Foundation
Mr. Ronak Patel
Journalist and Editor
Asmita Tv, ABP Network
