Manisha, a Ph.D. in Environmental Science., is a climate change, environment, and sustainability expert with more than 22 years of experience. She is now working as a Director with the Sustainability and Development Sector Practice of Nangia Andersen LLP (a member firm of Andersen Global in India). She started her career with the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), a prestigious research institute under CSIR, Govt. of India and thereafter was associated with the Sustainability and Climate Change group of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for about a decade. For the past 10 years, she has been working with different multilateral and bilateral funding agencies and advising governments at both state, national and regional levels.

Her area of expertise includes Climate Change; Climate Finance, Cleantech innovation ecosystem, Environmental stewardship specifically environmental policies, and strategies, Environmental Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Sustainability Strategy, policy, and reporting.

She has worked extensively for clients in different states of India and in countries like Abu Dhabi, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Eswatini, Sudan, South Africa, etc. Her client list includes MLBs and bilateral funding agencies such as UN agencies; the World Bank Group; DFID, ADB, GIZ, CDKN, etc., other than some of the top global corporates. She has been part of the core group in developing the “First Sustainability Report” of various multi-national corporates and global conglomerates apart from devising the sustainability strategies.