Prof. V. Srinivas Chary
Director, Centre for Environment, Urban Governance, and Infrastructure Development (CEUG&ID), Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI)
Professor V. Srinivas Chary is the Director of the Centre for Environment, Urban Governance, and Infrastructure Development at ASCI. He provides the strategic direction to the Centre and leads its advisory, consulting research and capacity development programme. He is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence in Urban Development at ASCI instituted by the GoI. As an urban environmental planner and public health engineer with over two decades of experience in WASH, urban infrastructure services, governance reforms and equity he has undertaken over 200 research studies. His portfolio spans policy, programming, capacity development and knowledge management for national, state and city governments. He engages with multilateral funding agencies, governments, the corporate sector, private donors, academic and political leadership for promoting WASH. He mentors start-ups associated with the circular economy, waste management and water supply for achieving scale with impact. He serves on various Inter-Ministerial and Department level Committees on urban development, smart cities and environmental sanitation. He is also a committee member of the GOI’s reinventing the toilet programme and national FSSM Alliance. He was a member of the Steering Committee on Urbanization for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017), a recipient of the Water for Life UN-Water Best Practices Award (4th edition), he has also been conferred the Ashoka Fellowship for his innovations in the WASH sector.
