Mahua Acharya was until recently, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of state owned energy transition company Convergence Energy Services Limited of the Government of India. She designed and led electric mobility initiatives for India, and significantly, the largest and most unprecedented electric bus program across the world that yielded prices lower than diesel. This programme is now an international case study.

Since then, Mahua embarked on building a new development platform dedicated to taking the energy transition journey at scale in India.

Mahua has two decades of experience in green finance, renewable energy, and carbon markets having worked in multiple countries. She was the Assistant Director-General of 29-country intergovernmental agency the Global Green Growth Institute, Seoul – an intergovernmental body where she worked across 16 countries on green investment schemes. She is one of the early pioneers of the carbon market, having been at the World Bank in Washington DC in its early days of the carbon markets and the carbon funds business.

Mahua is co-founder faculty of an executive education program at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, serves on the boards of multiple international entities and has appeared on international and Indian listings of women in leadership. She has won five awards in 2021 and seven awards in 2022 for her work. Mahua holds a Masters’ degree from Yale University.