Mridula Ramesh is the award-winning author of The Climate Solution and Watershed and the founder of Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions. She is an active climatetech angel investor with a portfolio of nearly thirty start-ups, and is involved with several initiatives to spur climatetech entrepreneurship. A graduate with distinction from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Mridula worked at McKinsey in Silicon Valley and is the executive director of Sundaram Textiles – the company was amongst the first textile companies globally to win the coveted TPM Excellence Award. She is part of the board of trustees of World Wildlife Fund, India and pens columns on the climate in the Hindustan Times and the Times of India. She lives and experiments in Madurai in a (nearly) net-zero-waste home with her husband and two children.