Core Team - Core Team Structure

Core Team

Our dedicated team of professionals in various capacities include domain experts with multiple years of experience at the global stage.

Mr. Samarendra Narayan Jena

Mr. Samarendra Narayan Jena is the Founding Director of the Company and a Social Safeguards Specialist. He has more than twenty years of experience in social impact assessment, land acquisition, poverty assessment, gender studies, Resettlement and Indigenous People’s studies for various infrastructure projects spanning across sectors like energy, transportation, tourism, urban development. He has successfully completed several ADB, World Bank, IFC, EC, JICA, AIBB etc. funded projects in India and other countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Lao-PDR, Indonesia, Timor Listee, Mongolia and Malawi. Mr. Jena holds a Master’s and M Phil degree in Sociology from the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Dr. Chittaranjan Mishra

Dr. Chittaranjan Mishra is a social safeguard expert and gender specialist having more than 20 years experience in the development sector. He has worked with several multilateral funding agencies such as ADB, World Bank, European Union, USAID, DFID, UNICEF, UN Women etc. His work spans across several countries of South Asia , Southeast Asia and Africa such as India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand and Malawi. His core expertise lies in the area of social safeguards, environmental and social due diligence, resettlement plan, livelihood assessment, poverty and gender studies and monitoring and evaluation. He has established a niche in various energy, transport and other development projects. Dr. Mishra holds a doctorate degree in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Ms. Nilanjana Rao

Ms. Nilanjana Rao, an Environmental Specialist with around 20 years of experience in environmental impact assessment (EIA) of infrastructure projects including building and construction, highways, water supply, irrigation etc. and implementing of environmental compliances of projects. Her expertise lies in carrying out Environmental and Social Impact Assessment studies, preparation of Environmental and Social Management Plans, carrying out compliance audits and monitoring of environmental compliances. She has worked as Environmental Specialist with DLF group of companies. She is now working on ADB, AFD funded projects in the energy and transport sector. Ms. Rao holds M.Sc. degree from IIT Roorkee and MA Sustainable Development from Staffordshire University, UK

Mr. Deepak Padhi

Mr. Deepak Padhi is a social development expert having experience of working with International and national development agencies in implementation of projects, conducting baseline and need assessment studies along with impact assessment of projects. He has worked with international agency like Aga Khan Foundation (India) for more than a decade as senior program officer and worked in the field of Early Education Care and Development (ECCD), Primary Education, Community Health, Livelihood, Environment and Sanitation. For the past 10 years, he is working on ADB funded projects in the energy and transport sector.

Narmada Purohit

Narmada Purohit is an active Development professional, with 18 years’ experience in program evaluations, impact assessment and overall project management. She has conducted participatory monitoring and evaluations that include child rights and protection, human trafficking, Public Health (HIV/AIDS, Maternal & Child Health) labour migration and gender across all the Indian states. She has experience of leading research studies, evaluations on child rights, child protection, gender and public health in South Asia. Having designed facilitated and led evaluations and studies, Narmada is adept at the application of qualitative and quantitative & data analysis methods with keen expertise in participatory (PRA) methodologies.

Dr Sandeep Kundu

Dr Sandeep Kundu is a Geoscientist and Geospatial of international repute. He has over 22 years of experience in several domains which include Natural resource exploration, Energy and Marine Geoscience, Telecom and Power Cable Routes, Remote Sensing and GIS Data Management. He has earlier served for global players like Telefonica, BHP Billiton, Reliance Exploration and Production and Fugro. Dr Kundu is also a seasoned academician having taught at the National University of Singapore for over 6 years and is currently engaged fulltime as a Professor at Ravenshaw University. He has numerous publication to his credit which includes three books on the subject of Energy, Sustainability and Geospatial Analytics. In his last role Dr Kundu has worked with major clients like Alcatel, NEC, Subcom, HMN, Singtel, EDF, Sembcorp and Keppel Infrastructure

Subarna Jena

Subarna Jena, has a B.Tech in Information Technology from IETE, New Delhi. She is responsible for the overall management of the company affairs. She also advises on IT and HR.

Amarendra Narayan Jena

Amarendra Narayan Jena has over fifteen years of experience in office administration including HR and Finance. He ensures smooth functioning of the consultancy and supports staff and clients alike

Priyanka Ray

Priyanka Ray is our Consultant Manager on health and wellness. She has an M.Pharma degree from Utkal University and has a certification on Nutrition, heart Disease and Diabetes from Wageningen University. She is trained in First Aid and CPR from Health Promotion Board of Singapore. She looks after the health and wellness and manages projects on a consulting basis.

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