Miniya Chatterji information

Miniya Chatterji^[1] (born 6 March 1979) is a prominent Dubai based business woman and a globally acclaimed sustainability leader. She is the CEO of Sustain Labs Paris [1]. Sustain Labs Paris is an enterprise based in India, UAE, and New Zealand that builds large sustainability focused ventures.

The firm also partners with organisations to make them more environmentally and socially responsible as well as profitable.

In the UAE, Sustain Labs Paris works with the country's largest companies and organisations including the Dubai World Trade Centre, Ministry of Education, ADNOC. In India, Sustain Labs Paris works across 200 companies.

Miniya is known for her commitment to education. She is building 10 climate focused university level institutions globally. She has established and leads India's first UG - PhD climate school Anant School for Climate Action, which also offers India's first undergraduate degree focusing on engineering solutions for climate change [2]. She also led the establishment of 28 COVID hospitals across 5 states in India, by transforming existing vacant buildings. She was acclaimed for innovations such as building COVID ambulances and mobile COVID testing facilities within an auto rickshaw, and successfully taking it to market.

Miniya was on the cover of the Friday Magazine, Gulf News, September 2023. She was on the cover of Business Asia in 2020. Miniya was featured in Business World's 40 under 40 achievers list 2019. [https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/the-role-of-the-private-sector-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/4452 She is also visiting professor at Sciences Po Paris since 2015. She is the author of Indian Instincts (Penguin Random House, January 2018). She writes frequently in newspapers.

She was previously working as the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at the USD 4 billionJindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL^[2]) and was one of the youngest top business women in India at the time.

Chatterji was an employee of the ‘World Economic Forum’ (WEF), and was also a Global Leadership Fellow from 2011 to 2014.

She has been a speaker or moderator at Davos and at other World Economic Forum regional summits, the United Nations, European Union, PE International, Microsoft Innovation Cup and Digital-Life-Design (DLD).

Chatterji is a Jury Member for the Million Dollar Global Teacher Prize and for The Circulars award at Davos.