Sandeep is a Strategic Investor & Advisor in Sustainext. He has been working within the development and carbon sector, including climate finance, community-based projects, and low carbon social development projects such as sustainable agriculture, social forestry, coastal resilience, clean cooking, clean air, drinking water, rural energy access, and waste management, in Asia & Africa. He has recently launched a climate change impact fund to invest in start-ups related to climate solutions. He also works as an advisor to the private sector in the region with issues related to corporate sustainability and its relation to community impacts and action.
He is on the board of numerous non-profits working on climate-related projects including Planting on Demand, Bangladesh Bondhu Foundation & Environment Protection Centre Nepal. Sandeep has over 20 years of industry experience, has a degree in Electronics, and is a Salzburg Global Fellow. He is also a director at “Carbon Initiative Forum”, a non-profit working on climate policy awareness for the youth and currently serves on the executive board of the International Carbon Reduction Alliance (ICROA) and the Centre for Governance and Ethics (CEGET) of the UN global compact.
