Mahua Acharya

Founder CEO, International Energy Transition Platform

Mahua Acharya has spent 20+ in green finance, electric mobility, renewable energy, and carbon markets having worked internationally as well as in the Government of India. She was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of state-owned Convergence Energy Services Limited, Government of India, where she designed and led a nation-wide programme that led to the contracting of nearly 20,000 fully electric buses on Indian roads, with 9000+ currently deployed. She is recognised as one of the main architects behind this massive transformation. The Indian eBus program has drawn international attention, been documented and being replicated in or has informed multiple countries. 

Since then, Mahua has embarked on building a new development platform dedicated to taking the energy transition journey at scale in India.

Mahua is one of the early pioneers of the carbon market – having been at the World Bank in Washington DC in its early days of the carbon markets and the carbon funds business.

Mahua is co-founder faculty of Sustainable Finance, an executive education program at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, serves on the boards of multiple international entities and has appeared on international and Indian listings of women in leadership. She has won 5 awards in 2021, 7 awards in 2022 and 5 wards in 2023 for her work.