Shaurya
Ritwik

He is the author of The Signal Economy: Why Sustainability Is Wired to Fail, and Why Only Structural Change Can Fix It. The book argues that increasingly sophisticated sustainability frameworks have widened the gap between commitment and outcome rather than narrowing it, and that this is a design outcome rather than a failure of ambition. When institutions are rewarded for producing signals rather than results, capital follows the signal.

Ritwik is Managing Director of the International Institute for Sustainable Finance (IISF), where he contributes to professional and executive education in sustainable finance. He also serves as Director of the Sustainable Capital Research Foundation (SCRF) and as a Board Member of the Solar Futures Alliance Foundation. His experience includes consulting on Asian Development Bank-funded programmes across Southeast Asia, working with government bodies and development institutions on the policy and financial dimensions of the energy transition.

He holds an MBA in Sustainable Finance and Business Analytics from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, where he was a President’s Scholar, and a BA with Honours in Philosophy, with a minor in Economics, from the University of Delhi. He has also completed executive programmes at Fudan University School of Management, HEC Paris and Koç University.

His work is guided by the conviction that complex challenges in finance, development and the energy transition require disciplined thinking, institutional courage and patient capital.