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Company
Green Resource Associates
Department
Environment
Position
Partner
City
Mumbai
Country
India
Professional Background
Professional Experience: Green Resource Associates Nov 2012 - Present Partner Green Resource Associates is an environmental consulting firm offering a wide range of services to the resource development industry and one of the leading advisors engaged in providing environmental consultancy services. We partner with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors to provide them with environmental solutions that enable them to expand social and economic opportunities, while minimizing their environmental footprint. GRA focuses on the following areas for your project requirements: * Licensing and Permitting including Consent to Establish/Operate/Renewal * Environmental Clearance * Forest Clearance * CRZ (Coastal Regulatory Zone) Clearance * Environmental Impact Assessments * Environmental Monitoring * Socio-economic Assessments * Due Diligence and Risk Evaluation * Ecosystem Services * Sustainability Reporting * CSR * Green Building • Eco Ventures Pvt. Ltd. (Environmental Consultancy Services) September 2011 - October 2012 Senior Consultant - Lead teams of inter-disciplinary technical specialists to develop successful strategies for projects with clients, ensure timely responsiveness, and provide leadership to project staff. - Network within industry organizations, technical seminars and trade shows, including delivery of technical presentations. - Develop internal relationships, to support the overall growth and success of Eco Ventures, support business unit activities and steward client satisfaction. - Activities including business development, client lead generation through close, client discussions, develop pricing strategies, prepare proposals and final pricing for submission to clients. - Develop scope of work and conduct Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies, Socio-Economic Assessment (SEA) studies and Disaster Management Plan (DMP) including reporting and advising improvement programs to clients. - Develop protocols for Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation including closure of reports and consulting mitigation measures to clients. - Experience with Consent to Establish/Operate/Renewal, Environmental Clearance and Forest Clearance including documentation, agency liaison and conducting Public Hearing/Consultation for clients. - Initiated and implemented Non-market Valuation (Ecosystem Services) as one of the services at Eco Ventures P. Ltd. • Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, URI Research Associate 2010 - 2011 - Non-market Valuation and Ecosystem Services research - Experience working on the project “Managing multiple ecosystem services from agricultural and forest landscape in the rural fringe in southern New England” - Collecting and analyzing cost data and production data for different land management practices - Assessing the tradeoffs among multiple ecosystem services and production efficiencies arising from alternative land management decisions - Experience studying economic and simulation models based on prior research • URI, Sustainable Seafood Marketing and Eco-labeling Initiative Fellowship/Internship Summer 2009 - Experience collecting and analyzing data on sustainable seafood markets for multiple academic studies - Research and report on organic price premium paid in the U.S. market, at several levels of the market, for a large variety of agricultural products - Statistical analysis of data on import prices for certified and non-certified seafood - Initiating and creating a sustainable seafood guide for Rhode Island fisheries • University of Rhode Island, Environmental & Natural Resource Economics Graduate Teaching Assistant 2008 - 2009 - EEC-105; Introduction to Resource Economics
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