Mahua Acharya
Mahua Acharya
Mahua Acharya is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of state owned energy transition company - Convergence Energy Services Limited of the Government of India.
Mahua has two decades of experience in green finance, renewable energy, and carbon markets having worked in multiple countries. For the last few years, Mahua was the Assistant Director-General of 29-country intergovernmental agency the Global Green Growth Institute, Seoul – an intergovernmental body where she worked across 16 countries on green investment schemes. She was previously managing director of a $50M carbon credit based impact investment business. She 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 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.
Mahua holds a Masters’ degree from Yale University.