Former Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Director General & CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former CEO Anil Agarwal Foundation (Vedanta Group) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, Senior Adviser, Deloitte India, Dua Consulting and Centre for Responsible Business <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee is widely acclaimed as the Father of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India. He was instrumental in framing and issuing the CSR guidelines for Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) in April, 2010. Thereafter, he played a major role in the inclusion of Section 135 in the Companies Act of 2013 and in the framing of the rules thereafter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the Director General & CEO of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), he spearheaded the National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (NFCSR). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has spoken and lectured on the subject of CSR and Sustainability at a very large number of National and International forums over the last decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Chatterjee is closely associated with the Sustainable Development Goals and the entire national effort for carrying forward the implementation process. He coordinates closely with the United Nations Global Compact and the Niti Aayog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Chatterjee is a highly respected management practitioner, theorist and teacher. He has written and lectured over many years on issues of social and sustainable development, corporate responsibility and human resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As member of the United Nations Global Compact Governing Council<\/strong>, he has been associated with all the major national and international initiatives on sustainability, SDGs and ESG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As CEO of the Anil Agarwal Foundation of the Vedanta Group, he was associated with the Company\u2019s initiatives for reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050, environmental stewardship, introducing innovations for evolving greener business models and taking steps to achieving net water positivity by 2030. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this role, he was also coordinating and overseeing the entire gamut of CSR activities carried out by the Vedanta Group across 16 Business Units. He supervising the four National Priority Programs in the sectors of education and nutrition for women and children, rural health, animal welfare and women\u2019s empowerment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A former civil servant, he served for forty one years in the government. He held many distinguished positions in the State and Central Governments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He currently, Chairs the National Committee for Formulating the Indian National Standards<\/em> for ESG<\/em>. This Committee has been set up by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Govt. of India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12101,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[67],"class_list":["post-12099","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/12099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gsa\/transformation-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}