EquiNext Research & Development Foundation

Out Team

Anupama Chittaranjan

Founder & Director

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION |LEARNER |CHANGE MAKER | INNOVATIVE |

Anupama has hands-on learning and development experience to bridge the gap between new-age technologies and knowledge growth. She has taken consulting, solution, and delivery roles in digital business transformation of global learning technology players and publishers. She possesses broad suite of operations, process re-engineering, finance, business management, and strategic planning skills. She is a standards-focused leader proficient in directing multi-dimensional, multi-site teams employing functional, technical and leadership guidance in delivering complex programs and multiple concurrent projects.

The life-long yearning to deliver social impact led Anupama to come out of a long corporate life of 20 years and take up this life-time opportunity of starting her own work in climate action.    

Anupama went on to do formal courses in International Environmental Law, Business Sustainability, CSR, and the circular economy to build her knowledge in different specialized areas like environmental and business sustainability, SDGs, Sustainable Development methodologies cited in different industries, International Accords, Conventions and Treaties, Environmental Impact Analysis methodology, Life Cycle Assessment Approach, Circular Economy, Responsible Business Practices, Sustainability Standards essentials, Carbon Pricing, Fair trade practices to name a few.

An exceptional motivator and strategic planner who believes that change is the only constant, she started EquiNext Research and Development Foundation, a non-profit organization in the year 2021 to take forward the agenda of climate action at national and international levels.

Kaushitaki Sharma is a final-year law student at the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. She has been an environmentalist for as long as she can remember, and has imbibed those values in her academic and professional life as well. One of her most significant publications has covered the analysis of the commitment of different countries to the achievement of SDGs and how it correlates to the mitigation of the pandemic. She has also interned at Human Rights Law Network, where she worked on writ petitions that sought to ban the illegal rat-hole mining in Meghalaya and banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of harmful pesticides and fertilisers in India. Her research interests lie in the development of international environmental law vis-a-vis the global climate crisis and environmental diplomacy of States. 

Kaushitaki Sharma

Co-founder and Director