Our Contributors
Girish Menon
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Girish Menon — former CEO of UNICEF UK and ActionAid, with 40 years in global development — steps into his new role as President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar, an IRMA alumnus who began his career with Amul, is the Director of the Better World Foundation. He brings over two decades of experience in community institutions, cooperatives, and policy design, driving scalable, dignified pathways for self-reliance and systemic change.
Swapnil Pawar
Manoj Prabhakar
Swapnil Pawar
Swapnil Pawar, an IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, is the Founder of ASQI and a leading voice at the intersection of technology, finance, and sustainability. With over two decades of experience, he pioneers blockchain-based climate finance innovations, building on earlier roles at Engineers Gate and The Boston Consulting Group.
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha is a sustainable development and climate finance expert with over 30 years’ experience across the World Bank, IFC, CPI, and CEEW. He has led key national initiatives on transition finance with the Ministry of Finance, IFSCA, and NITI Aayog. An engineer and management graduate from BIT Ranchi and IIM Calcutta, with
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha is a sustainable development and climate finance expert with over 30 years’ experience across the World Bank, IFC, CPI, and CEEW. He has led key national initiatives on transition finance with the Ministry of Finance, IFSCA, and NITI Aayog. An engineer and management graduate from BIT Ranchi and IIM Calcutta, with a PhD from IIT Delhi, he also teaches Economics and Finance of Climate Change at IIM Calcutta.