Dr. Nabaneeta Rudra, Senior Manager- Impact Advisory

Nabaneeta Rudra holds a PhD in Forestry from Forest Research Institute (Dehradun) and is a P4 certified project manager. She come with an experience of over 23 years in field operation, philanthropic aid, government, and social development programmes. Her experience covers about half of the rural and urban districts of India, working on water, sanitation and hygiene, climate change, governance, natural resource management, public health, economic empowerment, social and gender inclusion. She started her career with Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and moved to work with Kantar Group and Affiliates and Mott MacDonald in private sector. Her recent experience has been with Plan International (India Chapter) where she was Senior Technical Advisor (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) taking care of public health and nutrition. In her career, she has led 80 plus projects and evaluations for multi-lateral, bi-lateral and government organisations, including multiple ministries and departments in government, USAID, UNICEF, UNDP, ADB, World Bank, JICA, GIZ, other not-for-profit organisations and private sector.

Indranil is a hardworking and passionate Environmental and Sustainability Consultant who works on ESG frameworks to assess an organization’s business practices. He has an experience of over 23 years in Consulting, Industrial and Research experience in several multi-national (USA, Kuwait, Oman and India) companies and academic organizations. Apart from the Environmental field he also works on Social and Governance issues related to ESG management. His areas of expertise and experience include Environment Protection, Sustainability Management, Storm Water Management, Solid Waste Management, Groundwater, Wastewater, Air Pollution, Renewal Energy, Energy Efficiency, Stakeholder Management and Corporate Governance. His experience also includes ESG frameworks and standards, Green Building, Carbon Credits, Risk Management, Climate Change Risks, Climate Change Impact Vulnerability, Climate Change Adaptability (GHG emissions reduction and achieving low carbon), Climate Change Resilience, SDGs and Rio Conventions.

Indranil Seth holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a second Master’s degree in Mining Engineering from University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA. He has a B.Tech. degree in Mining Engineering from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He has a PE (Professional Engineering) license in Environmental Engineering from Ohio State Board, USA, LEED AP BD+C accreditation, and PMP (Project Management Professional) certification. Indranil also has expertise in environmental data analysis/ management and extensive modelling. He has extensively worked with GIS applications in the Environmental and Sustainability field. He has published many articles in the field of environment and sustainability.

Itishree Nayak is a trained statistician and a demographer. She holds dual master’s degree in Statistics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. Prior to joining Change Alliance Pvt. Ltd.,

she served three reputed organisations, IIPS, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Centre of Excellence. She has contributed to the national report of Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) at IIPS and National Guidelines for Data Quality in Surveys at ICMR. Her strengths are analysis of large scale data using statistical software such as STATA, SPSS and also geographical software such as QGIS. She also has authored/co-authored four research articles in reputed international journals and had presented in international conference.

She has completed M.A. in Social Work with a specialization in Community Organization and Development Practices from Tata Institute of Social Sciences from Guwahati, and specialization in Sociology during her bachelor’s from University of Delhi. She has been working as a development professional for almost 5 years with a focus on women and gender rights.

She started her journey in the development sector with Barefoot College International, Rajasthan at Enriche Department on soft skill development as a facilitator and coordinator. As a facilitator, she developed soft skills and awareness through trainings on human rights, entrepreneurship, environment, and health with women from last-mile villages of Asia Pacific, Africa, Arabic countries, and from multiple states of India. She has also worked as a Senior Coordinator for Communications and Projects with Catalyst India in New Delhi, they worked with children rescued from human trafficking rings. Over the previous two years, Michelle has been working as National Programmes Associate at the YWCA of India in New Delhi. She has been involved in conceptualizing and developing programmes targeted at tackling social issues such as women’s empowerment, gender inequality, and community development, with a focus on project development for community sites. Additionally, she has demonstrated leadership in diverse areas of work for the YWCA national programmes department by overseeing community development projects, where the focus was on skill development and economic stability for women and girls of the community. She is an artistically inclined individual and has developed multiple interactive toolkits for youth (girls and boys) on mental health, menstrual hygiene and other women focused issues. As part of her work, she was also managing social media for online campaigns to raise awareness on women’s rights in multiple programs and initiatives such as women’s reservation bill, intergenerational leadership, International Peace day etc. Furthermore, leading the department she has actively developed partnerships and networks, with other organizations and local communities for implementation, as well as represented YWCA of India at various national and global forums.