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Keynote SpeakerAlan Rosling

Author of bestseller Boom Country: The New Wave of Indian Enterprise

Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer with specific knowledge of India and climate transition. Alan is co-founder of ECube, a specialist ESG platform in India which is establishing a climate finance institution. Earlier, he was Co-founder of Kiran Energy, one of India’s first solar power developers. Kiran... Read more

Biography

Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer with specific knowledge of India and climate transition.
Alan is co-founder of ECube, a specialist ESG platform in India which is establishing a climate finance institution. Earlier, he was Co-founder of Kiran Energy, one of India’s first solar power developers. Kiran was sold to a strategic investor in 2018.

Alan spent 5 years as Executive Director of Tata Sons Limited, where he was in charge of the group’s internationalization (2003-09). In this period the Group’s international business grew from $2.4 billion (24% of aggregate income) to $38 billion (60%).

From 1998 to 2003 he was Chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in India. His prior career included positions as Special Advisor to Prime Minister John Major; Strategy Development Director at United Distillers plc; Chief Executive of Piersons, a division of Courtaulds Textiles plc; and as a banker with S.G. Warburg and Co Ltd.

Alan is a Non-Executive director of a number of early stage companies including Insolight SA, Vyome Therapeutics and Peotic Technologies. His first book, Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise (Hachette 2017) was widely acclaimed as a significant contribution to understanding Indian entrepreneurship.

Rosling was educated at Cambridge University and the Harvard Business School.
Alan has been dynamic in advancing Indo-British relations for many years. As Chairman, he built up the British Business Group, Mumbai, into a lively association, and he set up and led the City of London Advisory Council for India.

Popular Talks by Alan Rosling

  • Climate Finance
  • India and Indian business
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Renewables and Solar Energy