Sandeep Roy Choudhury
Sandeep is a co-founder at VNV Advisory Services, a social enterprise working with communities & climate change in Asia and East Africa. He heads VNV’s ownership on low carbon social development projects such as sustainable agriculture, social forestry, blue carbon, clean cooking, clean air, drinking water, rural energy access and waste management. Sandeep’s work encompasses over 6 million rural households across 18+ countries in the region & over 100+ NGOs and social development partners: currently working on over 5 million hectares of natural ecosystems through blended climate finance for restoration with a landscape approach and building climate smart agriculture capacities for small holders .
He manages a climate change impact fund to invest in start-ups related to climate solutions as well as is the director of a blue carbon revolving fund called Mangroves.Now . He also works as an advisor to the private sector in the Asia region with issues related to corporate sustainability and its relation to community impacts and action and is a co-founder of Sustainnext, an ESG based technology firm. 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 19 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 has currently serving on the accreditation board at the International Carbon reduction and offset Alliance (ICROA) and also on the board of the Centre for governance and ethics (CEGET) of the UN global compact.