User:Mridula ramesh sci/sandbox

Education and Early Life
Mridula was born in India into the TVS Family. She graduated with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University with majors in Chemistry and Microbiology. After working for several years, she pursued an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Work Life
Mridula joined Southern Roadways Limited, a leading South Indian parcel service company and part of the TVS group, where she initially trained as a truck mechanic, learning to strip and rebuild a truck. She trained a group of construction workers – 12 boys and 5 girls – in truck mechanics. These five women maybe one of the few truck mechanics in the world; Many of them can also drive a large truck.

She worked in McKinsey & Company both in their Silicon Valley office, where she contributed to a report, Preparing for the next Silicon Valley - a study on how to stimulate entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, and in their Mumbai office.

She later joined Sundaram Textiles, as Executive Director, where she initially led the Total Plant Maintenance effort. The company secured the TPM Excellence award, one of the first textile companies in the world to win this award. She has been elected to the management committee of SIMA, association of south Indian spinners, and to TEXPROCIL, the national council for promotion of cotton exports.

Writing, Investing and Teaching
Mridula writes extensively on climate change – initially in The Hindu, where she wrote 30+ articles in the Climaction series, several of which went viral. She has written for Gobar times, Down to Earth and is now is a regular columnist for Firstpost, writing the ‘Climate Conversations’ column, on topic such as Delhi Pollution, Day Zero in India, agriculture and climate, waste management and Man-animal conflict in India’s forests. Her first book, ‘The Climate Solution’ is being brought out by Hachette India, in June 2018 and has been endorsed by Commerce and Aviation Minister, Suresh Prabhu, father of India’s Green Revolution, M.S. Swaminathan, and Water Man of India, Dr Rajendra Singh.

She is an active angel investor, focussing mainly on. She had a portfolio of over a dozen investments, including Carbon Masters, Saahas, Farmart and Proklean.

She teaches a class on Introduction to Climate Change in the Great Lakes Institute of Management and has earlier taught Climate Change and Entrepreneurship in the Thiagarajar School of Management. She founded and runs Sundaram Climate Insitute, which focusses on last mile solutions and education on water and waste.