Amit Lahiri

Amit is the Chief Sustainability Officer at O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University) in India, and an Associate Professor at the IIHEd-a preeminent research institute at the university. He is the founding Executive Director of CECRAS. He combines about ten years of experience in the global life sciences industry in two MNCs with about twenty years in the higher education sector. His career has spanned working across Canada, France, Germany, the U.A.E. and India. He has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies (Sustainable Development) from York University, Canada, a Graduate Diploma in Business & the Environment (Sustainability) from the globally ranked Schulich School of Business, Canada and a Master’s degree in the Life Sciences (Molecular Biology) from Bombay University, India. He has been awarded the Board of Governors Award of Excellence in 2015, the highest award in the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology in Canada. He was a featured speaker the same year in the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) panel ‘Tech for Good’ at the prestigious NASSCOM’s National India Leadership Forum (NILF). He was invited to speak at the plenary panel at the eminent Tata Institute of Social Sciences-the National CSR Conclave in November 2017 on ‘Driving SDGs through CSR in India’. He was a featured speaker amongst industry experts at the Mahindra & Mahindra Sustainability Forum in 2018 on ‘Environmental & Social Governance’. In 2019, he was invited by the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) to present a model to map SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) to the CSR spending in India as a way to measure the overall developmental impact. The MCA is the apex body of the Government of India responsible for the formulation & governance of the CSR law. Internationally, he has led a award-winning coffee social enterprise global citizenship & equity education project in the Dominican Republic in 2014, presented at the 8th Living Knowledge Conference at Budapest in 2018, the Law and Sustainable Development Conference at the University of California (Davis School of Law) in 2019 and invited to present a paper at the upcoming Law and Development Conference at the Humboldt University, Berlin in September 2019. Since joining O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University) in 2017, Amit is mandated with developing the institutional capacity for research, teaching and professional training in Sustainable Development- focusing on CSR and Sustainability models.

Education

Masters in Environmental Studies (York University, Canada)

Graduate Diploma in Sustainability (Schulich School of Business, Canada)

MSc in Life Sciences (Bombay University, India)