Mahua Basu, Executive Director, Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Ms. Mahua Basu is an Executive Director at Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), one of Asia’s largest integrated energy companies and a Fortune Global 500 enterprise. With extensive experience in the energy sector, she has held senior leadership roles across human resources, supply chain management, contracts and procurement, and design engineering functions within the organization.
Over the course of her career, she has been closely involved in supporting large-scale energy infrastructure and operational systems, navigating complex procurement processes, vendor ecosystems, workforce management, and project execution frameworks. Her work reflects deep engagement with institutional processes, governance mechanisms, and operational accountability in a major state-owned enterprise.
Ms. Basu brings practical insight into how large energy organizations function internally — from people and processes to procurement and project delivery — and how leadership decisions translate into on-the-ground outcomes.
 

Anushree Bhog, Head Legal, Datta Power Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
Anushree Bhog is Head of Legal at Datta Power Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., where she works across the full IPP value chain — land procurement, power plant development, evacuation infrastructure development, PPA negotiation with power buyers, and corporate financing, alongside regulatory affairs. Her current mandate puts her directly in the path of the issues this panel addresses: legal and structural friction in land acquisition, transmission and evacuation bottlenecks, and financing IPP projects through to bankability.

Before moving into energy, she spent over six years as Associate General Counsel at Zomato, where she built the company's legal function and led acquisitions, fundraising and the IPO. She later served as Global General Counsel at Yellow.ai, building out the global legal function and compliance framework. Across both roles, she has paired legal judgment with commercial and strategic thinking.

She joins the panel as a practitioner discussant, drawing on her current work executing IPP projects on the ground.
 

Dibyendu Deepak, Managing Director, Repono Limited
Dibyendu Deepak is a seasoned petrochemical industry veteran and the Founder & Managing Director of Repono Group. With over 27 years of experience, he has held leadership roles in marketing, international business, project management, supply chain for both Indian and global companies.

Prior to founding Repono, Dibyendu worked with   Reliance, Indorama, ONGC Petro-additions, and Katoen Natie. He served as the CEO of Katoen Natie India, the world's largest petrochemical warehousing company, and later held a board position before venturing out to establish Repono.
Repono group is involved in Supply Chain and in Plastics Recycling Business business.  

A holder of Mechanical Engineering and Management degrees, Dibyendu is a frequent speaker at international conferences on various petrochemical, oil, and gas business verticals.

Suniti Kaur, Founding Partner, Alaya Legal
Suniti holds a B.A.,LLB (Hons) degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (India). She is the Co-founder and Executive Partner at Alaya Legal, where she leads the firm’s Energy and Sustainability practice. With deep expertise across oil & gas (upstream and downstream), LNG, renewable energy, and green hydrogen, Suniti has built a reputation for delivering strategic legal counsel in complex, high-value transactions and regulatory matters.

Under her guidance, Alaya Legal has steadily developed its credentials in advising stakeholders across India’s evolving energy sector. 

Ashok Kumar Rajput, Chairman Electro Technical Division Council, Bureau of Indian Standards
Shri. Ashok Kumar Rajput is the former Member (Power Systems) at the Central Electricity Authority, with extensive experience in India's power system planning, grid operations, and transmission development. Over his distinguished career, he has played a key role in strengthening national grid reliability, regional coordination, and large-scale integration of renewable energy. He has also contributed to policy formulation, technical standards, and power sector reforms through his leadership within the CEA. His work has been instrumental in advancing the operational efficiency and resilience of India's evolving power system.

Ritu Lal, Client Partner - Infrastructure and Energy Practices, Amrop India.
Ritu has previously worked with Amplus Solar, DSM and GSK. She has over 25 years' experience across various industries including Renewable Energy, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and Food. She has extensive cross-functional experience across domains such as Policy Advocacy, Procurement, Business Development, Finance and HR. Her career has been marked with diverse geographical exposure, including Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Her diverse skill sets give her an in-depth understanding of industry requirements as well as business issues.
Ritu is a passionate advocate for India’s solar and renewable energy transition and has been a leading voice for accelerating the deployment of India’s renewable energy adoption, especially in the Industrial, Commercial and Retail segments.

She invests a substantial amount of time in training and mentoring solar professionals, renewable startups, and B-school students. Ritu also collaborates with international agencies to train government officials across several countries on critical aspects of rooftop solar.

Dr. Moumita Mandal, Assistant Professor - Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies, TERI-SAS
Dr. Moumita Mandal is currently an Assistant Professor at TERI-SAS, Delhi. She has completed her Ph.D. & M.Phil in International Law from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and LL.M in International Law from W.B National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata.

She was also an Adjunct Faculty at the School of Conflict and Security Studies, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore & Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Nehru Chair, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Senior Research Fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Visiting Fellow at Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.

She is the Managing Editor of Environmental Policy and Law Journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press) & member of the Advisory Board, RMLNLU Law Review, Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University. She was invited by different academic institutions an d organizations for the special lecture and visit, e.g., Rhineland Lectures in International Law, University of Bonn, Germany, 22 June 2023; the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, Germany, 7 July 2023; the Centenary of the Hague Academy of International Law, the Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands, 24-26 May 2023, Indian Oil Corporation, and so on. Her areas of teaching and research are international law, SGBV, climate change law, energy law, environmental aspects of business activities, cyber security, data protection, artificial intelligence and law.

Muthusezhiyan Nallathambi, Deputy Executive Director, CII–Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre (CII-GBC)
He is an engineer by qualification and holds B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering degree from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. 

He has spent over 28 years working on energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and industrial resource optimisation. 

He is an Energy & Environmental Sustainability expert, at the CII – Godrej GBC and is involved in promoting the “Mission on Sustainable Growth” & “GreenCo Rating System” of CII. As part of the CII – Godrej GBC’s project team, executed several national & international projects on energy efficiency, climate change, waste management, material conservation & Recycling and Life Cycle Assessment etc.

He has been involved in more than 300 Energy Audits covering sectors like Buildings, Cement, Paper, Sugar, Engineering, Automobile, Textiles, Chemical and Foundry Industries. Mr. Muthusezhiyan has been involved in conducing baseline energy audit under Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt of India’s Perform, Achieve & Trade (PAT) scheme for Chlor Alkali, Cement, Steel sectors. The scope of this audit is to arrive at gate to gate energy consumption, identifying energy saving opportunities at macro level for achieving PAT targets.

He has been closely involved in both National & International Projects on Energy Conservation, Management Training, Life Cycle Assessment, GHG Mitigation, E-waste Management etc. 

Jessica Singh, Chief Manager - Corporate Strategy Department, Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Jessica Singh is Chief Manager at IndianOil’s Corporate Strategy Department, bringing 18 years of rich experience in energy economics, strategic planning, and sectoral analysis. A postgraduate in Economics from the prestigious Delhi School of Economics, her expertise spans energy transition, demand modelling, transport sector, oil and gas value chain, and evolving global energy dynamics. She is known for her ability to distil complex trends into actionable insights that support long-term business planning and policy alignment. Her work routinely informs IndianOil’s forward-looking strategies on energy security, decarbonization pathways, and market positioning in a transitioning global energy landscape.

Over the years, she has authored and contributed to several high-impact reports, articles and internal strategy papers. She has represented IndianOil at industry consultations and international workshops. Her analytical rigor and forward-thinking perspective have established her as a credible voice in corporate energy circles.

Dr. Manini Syali, Assistant Professor - Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies, TERI-SAS
Dr. Manini Syali is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Post-Graduate Legal Studies, Department of Policy and Management Studies, TERI-SAS. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University School of Legal Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, and an LLM (International Law) from the South Asian (SAARC) University, Delhi. Her Ph.D. research was focused on ‘Suggesting Alternatives to the Existing International Legal Mechanisms Governing Transboundary Biodiversity Resources.’ Before joining TERI-SAS, Dr. Syali was working as an Assistant Professor (Law) at the Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi. She has also worked at Gautam Buddha University, Uttar Pradesh and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Indore Campus, as a Guest Faculty. She has also been associated with the Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA) program of Oxfam as a Youth Basin Ambassador (YBA) for Water Resource Governance, Climate Change, and Human Rights. She co-led the Youth Basin Ambassador Dialogues from April 2021 to September 2021, under the aegis of TROSA.