Siddharth Sharma is the Group Chief Sustainability Officer of Tata Sons. He was a career bureaucrat for more than two and a half decades before transitioning to the Tatas in February, 2019. He has served in key ministries and departments of the Government of India including the Ministries of Finance, External Affairs and Urban Development and played a key role in conceptualizing and implementing pension reform in India in the form of the National Pension System. He was also the Financial Advisor to President Pranab Mukherjee between 2012-17. As the Group CSO at Tata Sons he is responsible for overseeing the ESG imperatives across the Group and in that capacity heads the Tata Sustainability Group and chairs the Tata Group Sustainability Council. He represents the Tatas on various important policy advocacy bodies such as ETC, WBCSD & the S30. He is also an avid debater.

Balaji Ganapathy serves as the Chief Social Responsibility Officer and Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a Global Top 3 information technology leader. His mission is to harness the power of purpose, people and technology to advance access, equity and inclusion across society. Since 2015, TCS has invested over $350M on its community initiatives and empowered millions of underserved students, minorities, youth, women and elders to be literate, healthy, educated, digitally skilled, mentored, become rural entrepreneurs and gain employment, enabling societal uplift and generational improvement. A mission-driven leader, he served as Chair of STEMconnector’s STEM Innovation Task Force and NPower’s TCC Advisory Council. He serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Board and Education, Employment & Training Committee, World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee, Vice-Chair of Million Women Mentors (MWM), IMPACT 2030’s Advisory Council, Here2Here’s Business Council and Board of Women Business Collaborative.

SJR Kutty is the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at Tata Motors and heads the CSR & Sustainability verticals. Having been associated with Tata Motors since 1983, Kutty has worked in leadership roles across various functions including Manufacturing, the Engineering Research Centre (ERC), Strategy and Business Planning. In his immediate previous role, he was the Head of Vehicle Attributes & Technical Services (VATS), and successfully led the migration to BS 6 emission norms, NVH (Noise, Vibration & Harshness), IPR, Innovation, and the development of India’s first 5-star GNCAP safety rated car. In an earlier role as Head of Strategic Projects, he delivered an efficient cost management exercise across the company. Kutty’s rich qualifications include an Engineering degree in Metallurgy from the reputed College of Engineering (COE) Pune and a Bachelors in Law (LLB) from ILS Law College, Pune. Awarded the Tata – BP scholarship, he completed his MBA from the Imperial College London. An acclaimed teacher of Business Ethics, Business Strategy and Employee Engagement, Kutty lectures at several business schools in India. He is also actively involved in leadership development and has mentored a number of students and professionals, enabling them to excel in their areas of competence.

Sanjiv Paul, Vice President of Safety, Health and Sustainability at Tata Steel Limited, graduated in Metallurgical Engineering and joined Tata Steel Ltd. (TSL) in 1986 as Graduate Trainee. He started his career at Steel Melting Shops where working in various capacities till 1998. After completion of a Senior Management program at CEDEP France, he moved on to assume Leadership roles in areas of General Management in TSL. He assumed the position of GM (Town Services) in January 2003 and under his leadership, the Town Services Division became an independent company by the name of JUSCO (now Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd (TSUISL)), which he headed as Managing Director till March 2010. He was the VP (Corporate Services) of TSL from April 2010 till March 2013 after which he joined Tata Metaliks Ltd. as Managing Director. From July 2017, he has assumed the role of VP, Safety Health & Sustainability at TSL. Apart from being an active member of World Steel Association (WSA) and CII, he provides guidance as Chairman /Member of the Board to various organizations such as Tata Metaliks, Tata Pigments, ResponsibleSteel etc.  He is an avid reader and a golfer.

Alka Upadhyay is with the Tata Group for 23+years, currently serving as Assistant Vice President, Tata Sons. She leads the Environment and Sustainability practice of Tata Sustainability Group (TSG), Tata Sons. As a founding member of the TSG and Climate Change cell, she has been instrumental in shaping up Tata group’s position on both Climate Change and Sustainability. Over the last decade, Alka has helped Tata companies across sectors develop their low carbon and sustainable business strategy. Alka brings her expertise to various working groups shaping the conversation on environment and sustainability at global and national arena –World Business Council for Sustainable Development, FICCI Environment and Circular Economy, CII (W) Environment, to name a few. Prior to joining Tata Sons, she spent a decade with Tata Steel across functions. Ms. Upadhyay has background in metallurgical engineering and has been felicitated by Young Metallurgist award by the Ministry of Steel, India for her extensive work in iron and steel industry. She is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri.