Our Board of Directors
A physicist and climatologist of Sri Lankan origin, Prof. Munasinghe is Founder Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka, and is a KIVA Guest Professor at Darmstadt University, Germany; Visiting Professor at the Vale Sustainable Development Institute, Federal University of Pará, Brazil; Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China; and he was a Senior Advisor/Manager at World Bank, Washington DC, covering sustainable development, environmental policy, water, energy and transport; as well as Chancellor, International Water Academy, Oslo; and Director-General, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.
He has received several honorary doctorates (honoris causa), and was the Vice-Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4) that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with IPCC colleagues and former US Vice President Al Gore.
Fazal is the Executive Director Avarua Ventures (Pvt) Ltd and of Rainco (Pvt) Ltd – a privately held manufacturing and distribution business focusing on a range of home utility products in Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives.
With a passion for marketing and brand management, he is also a Director and Chief Strategist for six subsidiaries of the Rainco Group, which vary from home decor to outdoor lifestyle and packaging. His interest in green space paved the way to start the Conservation Carbon Company and the Carbon Consulting Company.
Fazal received his primary and secondary education from Trinity College Kandy, and later received his MBA from the University of Wales.
A graduate in law from the University of Oxford, Subra is the co-founder of the Carbon Consulting Company and its sister firm, the Conservation Carbon Company.
He is also the Deputy Chairman of Eswaran Brothers Exports (Pvt) Ltd – the tea exporting arm of the Eswaran Brothers Group, as well as of T-Print, a company that specialises in printing tags and labels for the packaging industry.
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Subra has spoken extensively at international events on environmental conservation and is also a recipient of the JCI TOYP Award for Environmental Leadership.
Sanith is the Director & CEO of The Climate & Conservation Consortium (CCC) as well as its consulting arm CCC Consultants LLC based in Dubai. He is also the Director & CEO of The Conservation Carbon Company – a purpose driven company set up to develop forestry and nature-based solutions for carbon sequestration as well as community based forestry and bio diversity related projects. With over 12 years of experience in the fields of sustainability and conservation, he had his Executive Education at Stanford University and his Sustainability Leadership education at Harvard University. He also holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayewardenapura and is an Attorney-at-Law by qualification.
