Team

Shraman is a seasoned professional manager, with nearly 30 years of multi-industry professional experience in diverse emerging markets (India, Bangladesh, West Africa and the Middle East). Shraman started his career in 1993 at Unilever with diverse roles in India and Bangladesh before moving onto other reputed organisations like Friesland Campina and Eli Lilly amongst others. Passionate about the environment, he was last with WWF, helping drive the wider conservation and sustainability agenda. Shraman also serves on the board of GALVmed, an Edinburgh based not-for-profit organisation focused on the small holder farmers of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Shraman is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He also holds an MA in Economics from the University of Pune and a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He has been awarded the British Chevening Senior Scholarship to the London School of Economics and is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar-21st Century Trust. Shraman writes and speaks actively on environment linked issues, also engaging with students at select academic institutions.

Anantika is the Senior Manager - Portfolio and Partnerships at Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF). Her work at the Foundation aims to raise the profile of India’s water challenges and solutions through strategic government engagement and private partnerships. She believes improving water security requires both targeted and collective action. A large part of her work involves government partnerships; key crop systems; incentives for water conservation and championing frontline workers. Anantika has 18 years of work experience across corporate, government and development sectors. She has worked extensively in the health and social protection space and fostered several successful government and philanthropic collaborations. She holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Delhi University.

Praveen is the Portfolio and Operations lead at Hindustan Unilever Foundation. He brings in expertise on building programmes, managing vital organisational functions with other business partners, and leveraging knowledge outcomes across the entire portfolio. His work at the Foundation aims to build numeracy and action on water security, building system and scale enablers and forging networks for cross learning. He believes that building first mile capability is critical for extension support, being a critical driver to achieve scale and sustainable outcomes for communities in water security programmes. Praveen has over 20 years of experience in the development sector that covering a wide spectrum on the environment, social and governance agenda. He is passionate on the climate agenda, and his works in previous roles have explored energy, chemicals, wastes and climate issues. With a strong people orientation, Praveen believes in pursuing equity and ethics as matter of individual behaviour and leadership trait. He has been awarded the International Visitors Leadership Fellowship of US Dept of State and is an alumnus of Leadership Accelerator Programme of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore. Praveen holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Economics and Masters in Ecology and Environment.

Kumud is a subject matter expert in Watershed and natural resource management. At HUF, he helps team members and partners conduct geographic analysis and apply remote sensing technologies to understand the programme’s water context and inform science led water infrastructure creation and management. He has over 20 years of diverse experience in Natural Resource Management, Climate change, watershed, water resources, GIS/RS applications and project execution. Early in his career, Kumud worked with Royal HaskoningDHV, CII, Jacobs Engineering, ESRI and other MNCs on water, wastewater, and climate issues. He holds a post graduate degree in Geoinformatics.

Rishu leads Water Conservation programmes in HUF. A postgraduate from Indian Institute of Forest Management, he is an environmentalist and a development professional with over two decades of work experience. He believes local governments together with informed and active citizen participation is key to addressing sustainable development and climate change adaptation challenges. Prior to joining HUF, he has worked with United Nations, DFID and civil society organizations. He started his career working with forest communities in Madhya Pradesh. On a key leadership position in WOTR, he led ambitious community-based interventions. He was also part of the national team at Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GOI, that contributed to roll out GPDP across the country.

Vidur Shreshth is the Co-ordinator for Environmental Sustainability at PRABHAT, HUL’s flagship factory programme across several locations in India. In partnership with communities in the vicinity of HUL’s factories, Vidur works with NGOs on solutions to improve ground water, undertake water conservation and support farmers to adopt regenerative agricultural practices. Vidur is a development professional and post-graduate in Water policy and Governance. In his previous stint as a Zila Swachh Bharat Prerak, he anchored the progress of Swachh Bharat Mission-Rural in Munger District of Bihar by providing technical expertise to the District administration on behaviour change and improving accessibility to toilets.

Nivedita leads a portfolio of start-ups working on innovative and viable solutions for water conservation and water use efficiency in agriculture. She also manages HUF’s Data Management System which enables real-time monitoring of programme data and season-wise tracking of KPIs for better insights and timely decision making. Nivedita has over 12 years of experience across corporate and social sectors. She has led multi-stakeholder engagements with non-profits and government bodies, in the areas of vocational education, Tech4Good and rural development. She has completed a Post Graduate Program in Development Leadership and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Technology.

Angela handles all the finance-related issues for the Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF). As hold MBA in finance, she is a veteran of the broader Unilever system, with an experience of more than 25 years of working experience in separate streams and sub-functions of the area. She is energized and enthused by the work done by the Foundations across its program on water and believes this is her way of making a difference in one of India’s most critical needs in the years ahead. Angela also supports the CSR function role for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), where she is responsible for the compliance, monitoring, audit, governance, and reporting. These get her to interface with different verticals and functions. Her intrinsic interest in sustainability makes it even more exciting for her to be a part of this broader agenda.

Shilpa supports HUF’s CEO and Programme Leads in ensuring organisational goals are met and programme priorities are on track. She interfaces with partners, employees, vendors and other and internal and external stakeholders.  She manages financial and administrative compliance of partners and team members, manages all vendor relations. She supports HUF in organising and hosting events, meetings and trainings, in addition supports team members wherever the need may arise. Shilpa has over 8 years of work experience across corporate sectors. She has worked extensively in the education and hospitality.

Ms. Kalpana Morparia is an Independent Director and Former Chairman of JPMorgan, South and Southeast Asia. Kalpana was also a member of JPMorgan’s Asia Pacific Management Committee. She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hindustan Unilever Limited and Philip Morris International Inc. Kalpana is also a Member of the Governing Board of Bharti Foundation. Prior to joining JPMorgan, India, Kalpana served in ICICI Group since 1975. Her last assignment included Vice Chair on the Board of ICICI Group Companies and Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank from 2001 to 2007. A graduate in science and law from Bombay University, Kalpana has been recognized in the international and national media for her role as a leading women professionals.

Ms. Vittal has profound experience in emerging markets, Indian agriculture and urbanization. She was a partner at McKinsey & Co. for 16 years where she contributed her expertise to global companies on growth and sustainable scaling. She has co-authored several studies related to agriculture and urbanization which have helped the government and public institutions design and implement solutions for urban development and sustainable rural growth. Ms. Vittal serves as the Board member and member of the audit committee of Titan Company Ltd., The Indian Hotels Company Ltd., Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., HDFC Ltd., Compass Plc, and non-profit organizations such as Vidhi Legal, Wateraid, and Educate Girls. She earned a bachelor’s degree in BS electronics from Osmania University and holds an MBA degree from IIM Calcutta.

Geetu is a global business leader and innovator driven by the urgency to build businesses with purpose that have a lasting impact on the health of the world. Her professional experiences over 35 years pan leading start-ups to scale in challenging contexts, turnaround assignments and breakthrough innovations, in developed and emerging markets - Asia, Europe. Geetu is now a global management consultant, helping businesses with innovation, strategy & new business models to create sustainable growth. She partners Oxfordsm, a BCorp and a global strategic and marketing consultancy headquartered in the UK. She is also a Non- Executive Independent Director with Philips India Limited, United Breweries India Limited, TruCap Finance Limited and a strategy advisor to start ups in the nutrition and social impact space both in Netherlands and India. She has also chaired the Sub-Committee on Food Regulation with CII from 2015-2018. Geetu is an immensely respected FMCG industry voice, an ardent advocate on authentic leadership and a strong proponent of an inclusive culture that helps diversity thrive. She actively supports causes related to underprivileged children’s health & education.