MRIDULA RAMESH is the award-winning author of The Climate Solution and Watershed, and the founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions. She is an active climate-tech angel investor with a portfolio of over thirty start-ups and is involved in several initiatives to spur climate-tech entrepreneurship.

A graduate with distinction from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Mridula worked in McKinsey’s Silicon Valley office and is currently the Executive Director of Sundaram Textiles. The company was among the first textile companies globally to win the coveted TPM Excellence Award.

She is a member of the Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum, serves on the Board of Trustees of WWF India, and is the former Chairperson of the National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh. She also writes climate-focused columns for the Hindustan Times and The Times of India.

Mridula lives in Madurai, where she experiments with sustainable living in a (nearly) net-zero-waste, water-secure home with her husband and two children. In her spare time, she enjoys wildlife photography and exploring India’s ancient temples.