5 ways development finance institutions can accelerate clean air financing
Development finance institutions are critical to funding clean air projects. Increased collaboration and innovative financing can unlock major benefits.
Amit is a tech executive and entrepreneur based in London.
Till recently, Amit was Managing Director (Partner) and Global Lead - Sustainability Services for Strategic Clients and Commercial Growth at Accenture where he was responsible for growing the sustainability services business at the firm’s top global accounts, embedding sustainability in large transformational deals, and driving select strategic partnerships in sustainability. Amit was a member of the global leadership team tasked with building the end-to-end sustainability services business at Accenture, spanning strategy through execution.
Earlier, he advised Accenture's clients and architected new capabilities for driving growth, continuous innovation, and business performance primarily in the Media, EdTech, Food and AgTech sectors, focusing on the CEO and the Board agenda.
Previously, Amit was the founder, CEO and Board Director of RML AgTech/Reuters Market Light (later split into FarmBee and other businesses), a globally awarded mobile-led content and commerce business serving farmers, agri enterprises and financial institutions. Amit founded the business in Thomson Reuters, UK and later spun it off raising VC funding and ran it as CEO till it scaled to millions of users, multiple multi-lingual digital products, and B2C and B2B revenue streams.
Before founding RML, he held various strategy, operational and investment roles in Reuters, UK, and was also the founding advisor at London Business School to help set up the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. A Young Global Leader (YGL) alumnus at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Amit also sits on WEF's Global Future Council (GFC) on Clean Air. Amit graduated from SRCC, India, did his MBA from London Business School, and has attended YGL Modules on Global Leadership, Public Policy, and Energy Transition at Harvard and Princeton Universities.
Development finance institutions are critical to funding clean air projects. Increased collaboration and innovative financing can unlock major benefits.
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