Anurit Kanti is a Manager – Sustainability Specialist at Capgemini Invent, the consulting arm of Capgemini. In this role, he advises global organizations on advancing their sustainability and decarbonization agendas. His work spans GHG estimation and target-setting, renewable energy integration, circular economy initiatives, supply chain sustainability, ESG reporting, and other climate-positive strategies.

Anurit is an alumnus of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, where he led several sustainability-focused initiatives for the Gurugram Hub. He has contributed to the Forum’s climate agenda through thought leadership, including published blogs on climate change and sustainability.

Previously, Anurit was part of ReNew, India’s leading renewable energy company, where he played a key role in the Sustainability and ESG department. His contributions extended to corporate communications, CSR, thought leadership, and facilitating leadership participation at major global platforms such as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos (for three consecutive years), COP26, COP27, and Climate Week NYC. He also led ReNew’s flagship global internship program.

Anurit began his career at Bombay Hemp Company, where he supported strategic and collaborative efforts to build India’s industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis ecosystem, promoting holistic sustainable development.

He is a former international award-winning environmental journalist, having received the Young Environmental Journalist of the Year award at the Asian Environmental Journalism Awards by the Singapore Environment Council. His writing has extensively covered climate change, environmental policy, and sustainability. He was also recognized as one of India’s 40 Under 40 Achievers by the Indian Achievers Club.

Anurit holds a Master’s in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Environmental Economics from Ashoka University, where he wrote his thesis on Green Credits—a concept recently adopted as an official government program in India’s national budget. He is also an alumnus of the Young India Fellowship and served as an elected Director on the Ashoka Alumni Council.

He has been invited to speak on sustainability and climate change at leading forums and academic institutions. As an Adjunct Professor at the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, he designed and teaches a newly launched postgraduate elective course on Sustainability.

Anurit was selected to attend SHAPE South Asia 2023 in Kathmandu, a flagship World Economic Forum event for Global Shapers, where he was recognized as a contributor to the climate advocacy paper launched at the event. The paper cited a project he led and two of his WEF blogs. He also showcased a separate afforestation project at the event. He was again selected for SHAPE South Asia 2024 in Jaipur.