First Edition – December 2021
8th December 2021
Fireside Chat – Green Swans
John Elkington
Author, Advisor, Entrepreneur
Santhosh Jayaram
Global Head – Sustainability, HCL Technologies Limited
What Businesses Can Learn from Nature
R Gopalakrishnan
Author, Business Leader, Corporate Advisor
The ESG Bonanza – How India Can Build Outstanding Sustainable Businesses
Mukund Rajan
Author, Advisor, Entrepreneur
Anirban Ghosh
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group
Padmini Srinivasan
Associate Professor, Finance & Accounting, Chairperson, Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship, IIM Bangalore
GLF Honour Books (Business) Award Ceremony
Ajay Poddar
MD, Syenergy Environics Ltd
Roselin Minj
Lead (Partnerships) – Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute India
9th December 2021
Post Green: When Nature is Not The Other
Murali Sivaramakrishnan
Poet, Artist, Critic, Academician and Author. Founder President of ASLE India
Hariharan Chandrashekhar
Environmental Economist, Entrepreneur, Green Business Mentor, Writer, Policy Advocate and Urban Analyst
The Age & Rage of Cli-Fi
Chen Qiufan a.k.a. Stanley Chan
Award-winning Chinese author of the acclaimed eco-thriller Waste Tide, Honorary President of Chinese Science Fiction Writers Association, Founder of Thema Mundi Studio.
Bijal Vachharajani
Certified Climate ‘Worrier’, Editor at Pratham Books, and author of award-winning children’s books including A Cloud Called Bhurra
Atulya Misra
Senior IAS officer, Additional Chief Secretary (Tamil Nadu Government), and author of Oxygen Manifesto and Vultures of Paradise.
Rajat Chaudhuri
Bilingual writer, Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow, editor of speculative and solar punk stories, author of The Butterfly Effect
The Chipko Movement & Chronicling Environment History
Shekhar Pathak
Historian, Academician, Himalayan Traveller, Author and Founder of PAHAR (People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research)
Jairam Ramesh
Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Environment and Forest, Prolific Author
GLF Honour Books (General) Award Ceremony
Neha Dara
Business Head, RoundGlass Sustain
Norma Alvares
Environmentalist, lawyer, social worker, and founding member – Goa Foundation, founder trustee and chairperson – FIAPO
Zai Whitaker
Acclaimed Naturalist, Educator and Writer
10th December 2021
Why Green Literature Matters?
Neha Raghav
Education Specialist: Content & Training, WWF-India
Nature, Childhood and Our Emotional Lives: How Literature Binds Us
Nicola Davies
Author, The Song that Sings Us
Vidya Mani
Founder-member Funky Rainbow: A travelling bookshop and book consultancy
Role of Green Literature in My Life: A Panel Discussion with Children
Arunima Ghosh
Student, Aga Khan Academy
Ragavan Balaji
Student, Bombay International School
Celesta Fernandes
Student, Sharada Mandir School
Tamanna Sengupta
Environmental Enthusiast and Science Aficionado
GLF – WWF Honour Books (Children) Award Ceremony
Archana Atri
Jury Moderator
Ridhima Pandey
Young Climate Activist