Alan Rosling – Keynote Speaker

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.