Enabling Environment (PDF)

Dr. Srinivasan Sunderasan is an Economist with Verdurous Solutions, an investment advisory and consultancy focused on the areas of Clean Energy and Environmental Finance. Areas of his specialization include Project Appraisal, Portfolio Management, Financing for Alternative Energy, Microfinance, Technology Commercialization, Industrial Economics and Business Strategy. He has, in the past, been associated with several large corporates and reputed consulting firms.

He has authored books on Project Finance and Economics of Clean Energy. He is the Development Editor for a book on internalizing externalities, published by Nova Publishers, New York, USA. Dr. Sunderasan has authored over 25 research papers, chapters in books and case studies in the recent past, which have been published by prestigious international peer-reviewed journals, universities and publishers.

He has been awarded a Doctoral Degree in Business Economics by the University of Vienna, Austria. He has also concurrently undertaken graduate course work in Economics. He holds the rare distinction of completing the Doctoral program (and the Graduate course work) in 48 weeks of academic work. He holds an MBA degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, and his first degree is in Civil Engineering. He has pursued Graduate qualification in Architecture and has completed a Graduate diploma program in Environmental Law.

He is a life member of the Solar Energy Society of India, Member of the Indian Institute of Architects and an active member of the Institution of Engineers, India. He is a member of Guidepoint Global network, (formerly the Society of Industry Leaders, a Standard and Poor's, Vista Research initiative). He is an active member of the Global Executive Forum organized by the Economist Intelligence Unit.