Kripa Dwarakanath

Kripa is an IES member and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) with over 20 years of postgraduate consultancy experience in advising on sustainability strategy. She has spent the last ten years working in climate change mitigation in the development of planning policy, and in the water, aviation, built environment and rail infrastructure sectors. Kripa has led the development of sustainability frameworks for various purposes, including the delivery of sustainability appraisals in the early stages of her career. She has continued to use this approach throughout her work to date.

She currently leads the Sustainability and Resilience Service Line at GHD, and acts as the Service Group Manager, delivering solutions to clients to support them in their climate change and decarbonisation commitments, and their project portfolios. Her team also develops innovative approaches to provide nature-based solutions across several sectors, including energy infrastructure and the built environment. 

Kripa lives with her family in Cambridge and loves volunteering at her local Scout/Cub Group. She is a London LEAN Network Adviser.
 

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