Miniya Chatterji

Miniya Chatterji (born 6 March 1979) is a prominent Dubai based business woman and a globally acclaimed sustainability leader. She is the CEO of Sustain Labs Paris. Sustain Labs Paris is an enterprise based in India, UAE, and New Zealand that builds large sustainability focused ventures.

The firm also partners with organisations to make them more environmentally and socially responsible as well as profitable.

In the UAE, Sustain Labs Paris works with the country's largest companies and organisations including the Dubai World Trade Centre, Ministry of Education, ADNOC. In India, Sustain Labs Paris works across 200 companies.

Chatterji is known for her commitment to education. She is building 10 climate focused university level institutions globally. She has established and leads India's first UG - PhD climate school, which also offers India's first undergraduate degree focusing on engineering solutions for climate change. She also led the establishment of 28 COVID hospitals across 5 states in India, by transforming existing vacant buildings. She was acclaimed for innovations such as building COVID ambulances and mobile COVID testing facilities within an auto rickshaw, and successfully taking it to market.

She was previously working as the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at the USD 4 billion Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) and was one of the youngest top business women in India at the time.

She has been a speaker or moderator at Davos and at other World Economic Forum regional summits, the United Nations, European Union, PE International, Microsoft Innovation Cup and Digital-Life-Design (DLD).

Chatterji is a Jury Member for the Million Dollar Global Teacher Prize and for The Circulars award at Davos. Provided by Wikipedia