Ganapathy P

PG is an infrastructure and sustainability professional who brings with him around 25 years of experience in the infrastructure sector spanning water & sanitation, housing & real estate, urban infrastructure and sustainability. Currently, he is Director of Programs at CDD and he drives strategic initiatives, outreach activities and projects in the Water Body rejuvenation domain.

Till recently, he was a Senior Advisor at CDD and Consultant (Special Projects) at Wipro where he program-managed specific sustainability initiatives. In the past, he has been a Senior Advisor and adjunct faculty at IIHS, an Advisor to the Infrastructure Development Corporation of Karnataka (iDecK), an external infrastructure specialist consultant at Mckinsey & Co., Strategic Advisor to JUSCO and consultant to the FIRE Capital Fund. He was the Founder and Director-in-charge at Ecofirst Services, a sustainable design consultancy which offers infrastructure and services design to large buildings and township projects. He has also worked as an individual consultant with the World Bank and the ADB in the urban sector.

Prior to this, PG held senior positions in several corporations: he was the Regional Manager for South Asia in the water division of Black & Veatch (B&V), worked with the Mahindra Group in their real estate and infrastructure division, and worked for 9 years (of which 6 years as a partner) in the start-up phase of Feedback Ventures.

PG is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from IIT Madras and a PGDBM from IIM Ahmedabad (1993).

Latha Raman Jaigopal

Latha Raman Jaigopal is a founding Partner of Inspiration – a unique ‘nature-friendly architect-builder’ group, who over the last 25 years have grown as a team who cater to a niche clientele who genuinely take the resolve to achieve higher standards of ecology sensitivity in the built environment. With emphasis on use of cost effective, locally available, energy efficient and eco-friendly building technologies and integration of decentralised infrastructure systems including rain water harvesting, decentralized solid and liquid waste treatment and recycling and relevant applications of renewable energy, Inspiration has been involved in design and construction of over 500 projects ranging from single houses to community housing, institutional campuses, high end Hospitality projects etc spread over a wide range of geographical locations from hills to beaches in India. As a founding partner and Governing Body Member of CDD (Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination) Society India, Latha has also been instrumental in developing concepts, design detailing and implementation of several DEWATS and DBNS projects. These include the Rejuvenation of Canal Network of Alleppey, Master Plan for rejuvenation of Bhairoba Nalla in Pune, Feasibility studies for DEWATS at town level for Theni Municpality, over 30 DEWATS for the Hospitality and Institutional campuses etc. Latha is an Architect by training from College of Engineering, Trivandrum..

Karthik Ravichandran

Mr. Karthik Ravichandran has over 5 years’ experience in Decentralised wastewater treatment systems, Faecal sludge Management and Water body rejuvenation. He is currently working as Senior Project Engineer in Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society, Bangalore Before embarking on his professional endeavor Mr. Karthik Ravichandran has persued his Masters in Environment Engineering from Anna University, Chennai. He started his carrier as a Site Engineer at GRM constructions and later continued to work as Project Engineer at CDD Society. As a part of Weltwearts program, he was working with Bremen Overseas Research Association (BORDA) and hanseWasser in Germany for over a year on wastewater treatment. He has vast experience in designing of DEWATS, Faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTP) and water body Rejuvenation Projects (WBR). He has extensively worked on collecting and analyzing the data to understand the actual Ground scenario (by conducting detailed feasibility studies). All the projects that he plans are more inclined towards Nature based approach, which are more a sustainable. Key projects Undertaken: Development of Eco restoration plan for 8 lakes in Coimbatore identified under Coimbatore Smart City Ltd. Implementation of Faecal sludge treatment plant in Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu under TNUSSP project funded by Bill and Melinda gates foundation Baseline Survey assessing the sanitation Scenario at 21 towns across 7 agroclimatic zones in Tamilnadu Detailed Feasibility study and preparation of detailed project report for FSTP implementation in Kodaikanal, Warangal, Guntur and Gulbarga. Implementation of 10 DEWATS across South India. Preparation of O&M manual and Code of practice of DEWATS for BORDA Afghanistan.