Sujata Gupta joined ADB in 2003 and has worked on the public and private sectors of ADB as well as for resource mobilization from development partners. Sujata has a PhD from the London Business School, University of London and Master’s and Bachelor’s from the University of Delhi. Before joining ADB, Sujata was Senior Fellow and Director of the Policy Analysis Division, at TERI (then the Tata Energy Research Institute), New Delhi. She has also worked as a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis in Austria. She was a member of United Nations (UNFCCC) CDM Methodologies for Baselines and Monitoring Panel (2002–2005), and a co-coordinating lead author for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ritu Singh, Deputy General Manager at Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), is a postgraduate in Economics and holds a Doctoral degree in the same field. She began her career in 2006 as a faculty member of Economics at ICFAI and later worked with TERI, focusing on green growth and sustainable mobility. Ms. Singh joined EESL in April 2015 as the Regional Manager for Rajasthan. She has contributed to risk management initiatives and currently serves as a core member of the Appellate Authority. Additionally, she is the organization’s Gender Focal Point, leading efforts on gender mainstreaming across EESL. At present, she is heading the electric micro-mobility project and collaborated with various Ministries (MoRD, MoEFCC) for the same.

Chaitanya Kanuri is an Associate Director - Electric Mobility with the Sustainable Cities and Transport team at WRI India, where she leads various research and project initiatives on electric mobility at the national and state levels. Her areas of research include state-level policies and regulations to promote e-mobility, EV charging infrastructure planning frameworks, and e-mobility startup business models. She also oversees government partnerships in six Indian states, to support the implementation of EV demand creation and infrastructure development measures. Prior to joining WRI India, Ms. Kanuri worked with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) as part of their Sustainable Cities team. She holds a master’s in Urban Policy and Governance from Sciences Po, Paris, and a bachelor’s in Architecture from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur.

Manoj Kumar Muthumanickam is responsible for UNEP’s portfolio of GEF-funded climate change mitigation projects in the Asia-Pacific region. He currently oversees the development, implementation and evaluation of 25+ national projects in areas such as sustainable urban development, energy efficiency, net-zero decarbonization, electric mobility, and climate transparency. He has 17+ years of experience in this domain.  Prior to joining UNEP, he has worked in this sector with UNDP, National Development Banks, Super-ESCOs and International consulting firms for projects across South East Asia, South Asia and Africa. He has a Bachelor's in Energy and Environmental Engineering and a Master's in Energy Engineering.