Sivaranjani Subramanian

Sivaranjani is a Vice President at the Environmental Management Centre (EMC) and Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation (Ekonnect). She supports the SEED India Hub activities since April 2023 as a SEED India Advisor.

Sivaranjani has over 14 years of extensive work experience in urban environment, decarbonization and greenhouse gas emission inventorization, climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning, energy efficiency, biomass Gasification power generation, and waste management. She hand-holds organizations in developing their GHG inventory and decarbonization roadmaps.  She has been involved in advisory for project conceptualization, due diligence, feasibility, and energy efficiency studies for various industrial projects.

Sivaranjani has spent considerable time in rural India and has worked with NGOs for livelihood generation, village electrification, and watershed development Programmes. Armed with an entrepreneurial passion, she is always on the lookout and encourages starting and implementing viable energy and environment-based projects. As a part of her entrepreneurial venture she designed, fabricated, and tested a Top-lit up-draft micro-gasifier, launched as ‘Wudare’ biomass cook stoves, a sustainable alternative to LPG cylinders and conventional firewood cooking. Sivaranjani has facilitated and mentored many eco-entrepreneurship programmes.