India’s Apex Association for EV Industry
“Dozens of countries will see EVs running proudly with a label of Made In India. This marks a leap towards the goal of ‘Make in India, Make for the World’. India will export EVs to 100 countries and hybrid battery electrolyte manufacturing has begun here”
Gujarat, 27th August, 2025
Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog & Artha Global
and Senior Advisor, World Bank.
Dr O.P. Agarwal, Professor of Practice at IIT Roorkee, is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Niti Aayog and a Senior Advisor to the World Bank HQ. He was a member of the IAS from 1979 to 2007. He held several positions with the national and state government, including Joint Secretary (Urban Transport) in the Ministry of Urban Development and Secretary for Transport in Assam. He was the principal author of the National Urban Transport Policy, which was adopted in 2006 and has remained the key document guiding urban transport investments since then.
Senior Advisor, National Stock Exchange
(Finance, Public Policy & Infrastructure).
Mr. Pathak has an MBA from IIM Calcutta, after graduating from SRCC Delhi. He also completed his LLB, and ICFAI’s Diploma in Business Finance. He was the best all-round officer trainee in his Foundation Course at LBSNAA, Mussoorie in 1990.
His extensive international exposure includes an Eisenhower Fellowship (2000) as an emerging young Indian Leader to study cities and infrastructure in the United States, an EU Visitor Program (2003) hosted by the European Commission, and a Chevening Fellowship (2011) on Science and Innovation at the University of Oxford. He has fundraising experience across 3 continents.
Managing Director, India
The International Council on Clean Transportation,
New Delhi
Amit Bhatt is the ICCT’s Managing Director for India. He is based in New Delhi and has over 20 years of experience in transportation, urban development, and management. Before joining ICCT, Amit was Executive Director for Integrated Transport at WRI India for 12 years.
Founder, Centre for Automotive Research & Tribology (CART) IIT, Delhi.
Professor Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi has been working as a faculty member in Department of Electrical Engineering since 2005 and was founder Head of Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is also an associate faculty at Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, Amar Nath and Sashi Khosla School of Information Technology and Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Delhi.
Director, South Asia, Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
Vibhuti Garg is Director, South Asia with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Vibhuti’s focus is on promoting sustainable development through influencing policy intervention on energy pricing, adoption of new technologies, subsidy reforms, enhancing clean energy access, access to capital and private participation in various areas of the energy sector.
Executive Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air & Hydrogen, WRI India | IIM-B | Clemson University | Ex-Boschler
Pawan Mulukutla is the Executive Director of Integrated Transport, Electric Mobility, Clean Air & Hydrogen at World Resources Institute (WRI) India. Pawan is responsible for providing strategic direction and implementing the overarching objectives of these programs. He also leads the teams’ development of synergistic and action-oriented research programs to support India’s ambitious decarbonization journey through effective, equitable and inclusive mobility solutions. His leadership at WRI India also builds upon the ongoing global dialogue and collaborations towards transitioning to sustainable energy consumption models based on low-carbon pathways.
Director - Council on Energy, Environment & Water (CEEW) Green Finance Centre
Gagan is Director of the CEEW Green Finance Centre (CEEW-GFC) where his work is focused on advancing the energy transition in emerging economies.
Gagan was previously Adviser to CEF in which capacity he provided support to the team in the areas of clean energy markets and the finance ecosystem. In parallel, he was also engaged in independently advising entrepreneurs and corporates on capital raising and deployment strategies in the renewable energy space.
Leadership Positions at Ola Electric, Hyundai Motor,
Toyota Kirloskar.
BC Datta has over 40 years of work experience with a significant part of it in the automotive sector.
He was working as Vice President-Corporate Affairs with OLA Electric. Previously, he was Vice President-Corporate Affairs, Hyundai Motors. He has established robust relations with Central & State government agencies and is a part of various industrial committees and advisory panels at National, Regional and State level. He carries extensive experience in areas of taxation and public policy, and has held many leadership roles during his earlier stints with Toyota Kirloskar Motor and BPL-Sanyo Technologies.