MRIDULA RAMESH is the award-winning author of The Climate Solution and Watershed and the
founder of Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions. She is an active
climatetech angel investor with a portfolio of nearly thirty start-ups, and is involved with several
initiatives to spur climatetech entrepreneurship.
A graduate with distinction from Cornell University
and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Mridula worked at McKinsey in Silicon Valley
and is the executive director of Sundaram Textiles – the company was amongst the first textile
companies globally to win the coveted TPM Excellence Award.
She is part of the board of trustees of
World Wildlife Fund, India and pens columns on the climate in the Hindustan Times and the Times of
India. She lives and experiments in Madurai in a (nearly) net-zero-waste home with her husband and
two children.
