Team

Kamlesh Yagnik
Founder Promoter & Chairman,

Kamlesh Yagnik has over three decades of experience in research, business and consulting in the areas of Energy, Climate Change and Technology. Currently he is working as India’s first Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), appointed by Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC). He is a Founder Trustee of Surat Climate Change Trust (SCCT), the first of its kind in India. He represents small and medium enterprises working in flood-prone areas of South Gujarat, India, as Past President of The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is also a Vice-Chairman at Sarvajanik Education Society satisfying academic need of 35000 students running 30 education institutes. An engineer by training, he has studied vulnerabilities, impact and adaptation strategies for climate change in Surat. In collaboration with local government, he has worked on an end-to-end early-warning system for river floods. He has also initiated various e-governance projects for administration. His areas of interest include Urban Resilience, Surveillance and Energy Management.

Sanjay Punjabi
Founder & Executive Director

Sanjay Punjabi has almost having 27 years of experience in the field of Built Environment. He completed his BE Civil from M S University in 1988 and started his practice as an architectural planner, interior designer, project management consultant, and govt approved valuer. He has so far completed almost 630 projects of various sizes at various geographical locations. Sanjay Punjabi was appointed as a member of the City Advisory Committee and was a member of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) under which he successfully coordinated the first pilot project of a Nationwide architectural competition in which climate change is an important parameter. He was associated with the Internation Urban Cooperation (IUC) where he coordinated with a few cities for GCOM and prepared CAP for Vadodara city. He is associated with many organizations in various capacities and has a keen interest to serve by analyzing and implementing new-age sustainable global policies.

Dr. Bhairrvi Joshi
Executive Director

Dentist by profession, if not then people would roam around with decayed teeth. Pun Intended. With a niche for creativity and always out with some new idea, she has got into varied roles and juggled it with absolute finesse. Along with her tribe she has been actively promoting Literature, Cycling, Road safety, street Art and the endless list goes on. Her book – “Fuel Your Thoughts”, a self-help book has been motivating and inspiring those fighting their life battles. Her motto in life is to spread happiness and give the best to her patients, spread awareness about literature amongst kids, overcome the gender barrier, fight inner demons, promote health and fitness, vision India as a cycling country and put in best efforts to make the world a better place to live in.