Ashok Baran Chakraborty, Senior Adviser CIRC: Sustainability, CSR, HSE, Climate resilience.
Ashok Baran Chakraborty; An industry veteran with over 4 decades varied experience, professionally qualified in Sustainability, CSR, ESG, HSE & Climate resilience is member of CIRC. He is the key mentor and guide. He was Professor at the Institute of Management technology, Nagpur, ‘Chief Sustainability Officer’ & Head “Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD)” at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) and had a long stint at ONGC where he was the Executive Director & held key positions of Chief Carbon Management & Sustainability, Chief CSR, and Chief HSE. He specialises in policy making, strategy formulation, setting procedures, guidelines, developing standards and Program / Project development in the area of Sustainable development, CSR, Climate Change and HSE. As programme director he has led a team of professionals, designed & conducted over 34 National, International MDP’s & In-Company programmes in the area of Strategic CSR for Sustainable Development.
Senior adviser CIRC Sh Ashok Baran Chakraborty, leads the team for capacity building to help corporates & delegates in multiple ways to address the current requirements like: BRSR, CSR, ESG, Sustainability index, National & Global commitments and Climate change resilience & mitigation etc. While the climate change is a reality and every section of the society is vulnerable, the preparedness & resilience is the way forward. Low carbon pathway transition is both - an imperative and challenging. Strategy, Technology, Finance, Circularity, Resilience and other interconnected issues are important to address the issues. Socially responsive actions need to be curated & integrated to achieve sustainable solutions, scale & creativity. Past actions need review in order to meet new challenges for a bright future and to stay competitive. Opportunities to develop skill sets of the personnel are immense & the same require to be nurtured in specially structured programme related fields along with an exposure to the on-ground sharing of experience. Priority would be to increase resilience with focus on Environmental & Sustainability for the desired outcomes. Bottom of the pyramid and the livelihoods generation to address inequity is paramount.
Ashok B Chakraborty, is BE (Mech) NIT, M.Tech (IIT Delhi), MAM (Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai), MSc (Environmental Science) Kakatiya University & holds PG Diplomas in Environmental Management & Environmental Economics from Central University, Hyderabad. He has done 15 months advance Management Programme at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad with modules in US - Arizona & Rice Universities. A Chevening fellow 2009, University of Cambridge, UK, on the subject “Economics of Climate Change”. He has presented many papers at the national & global level and conferred with prestigious awards in the area of Climate Change, Sustainable development and CSR. He is a fellow of the ‘Institute of Engineers’, Chartered engineer, & Member- Association of British Scholars. He was the member of the expert group and designed PG Diploma in CSR for IGNOU. He is member of the BIS committee for developing standard on ‘Sustainable finance’.
Email: abc@circ.in