Role Players 2013
SEEMANTINEE KHOT
Global Head – CSR
Suzlon Infrastructure Services Ltd.
Seemantinee has over three decades of experience in the development sector, 20 years of direct implementation with NGOs, 5 years of Bilateral Aid and UN and 6 years of CSR with leading wind energy company, Suzlon.
Her experience and interests includes strategic planning and managing comprehensive development programs, coordinating multi-stakeholder analysis and policy research, and facilitating use-focused and learning oriented evaluations of development programs, both in India and overseas. Her experience of executing and monitoring grass-root level development programs, strengthening community based organizations and empowering them to promote sustainable natural resource management comprises a significant part of her current profile.
Suzlon Foundation, headed by her, is aligned to the vision of the Suzlon Group of Companies. Her focus has been on ensuring that business policies and practices support sustainability as the guiding principle so as to contribute towards creating a better world for all. She leads CSR policy formulation and programmes for all companies in the Suzlon Group, the world's third largest wind power company with a market cap of $7 billion. She is a champion of Inclusive Growth and Participatory Development. Her focus has been and remains on increasing engagement of marginalized communities in planning and implementation of development programs so that there is equity and justice.
Under her leadership, Suzlon has won CSR best practice awards by Aaj Tak, FICCI and CMO Asia.
She did MASW at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1982 and BA (Psychology) from University of Pune in 1980.
Her experience and interests includes strategic planning and managing comprehensive development programs, coordinating multi-stakeholder analysis and policy research, and facilitating use-focused and learning oriented evaluations of development programs, both in India and overseas. Her experience of executing and monitoring grass-root level development programs, strengthening community based organizations and empowering them to promote sustainable natural resource management comprises a significant part of her current profile.
Suzlon Foundation, headed by her, is aligned to the vision of the Suzlon Group of Companies. Her focus has been on ensuring that business policies and practices support sustainability as the guiding principle so as to contribute towards creating a better world for all. She leads CSR policy formulation and programmes for all companies in the Suzlon Group, the world's third largest wind power company with a market cap of $7 billion. She is a champion of Inclusive Growth and Participatory Development. Her focus has been and remains on increasing engagement of marginalized communities in planning and implementation of development programs so that there is equity and justice.
Under her leadership, Suzlon has won CSR best practice awards by Aaj Tak, FICCI and CMO Asia.
She did MASW at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1982 and BA (Psychology) from University of Pune in 1980.