Shankar Venkateswaran

Shankar's work career of about 40 years has been almost equally divided between mainstream business consulting, social development and business sustainability. Since retiring as the head of sustainability of the Tata group in 2017, he has been involved in several activities in the larger development and business space. He is a part of the founding team of ECube Climate Finance which is setting up a lending platform to address adverse climate change impacts. He is engaged with a movement called Yuva Shakti that hopes to pilot ways to enable young people be constitutionally and politically active. He has been associated with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on matters relating to Responsible Business Conduct. He sits on the board of several NGOs and social enterprises and currently chairs Oxfam India and the CSR Trust for SDGs in India.