Soumitra Das

Soumitra Das

Chairman and Executive Director

Healthy Climate Initiative (HCI)

Dr. Soumitra Das is the Executive Director of the Healthy Climate Initiative (HCI), which he co-founded with a vision to help regenerate a healthy climate and make it safer for future generations. An engineer by training, he brings both technical expertise and business experience to his work. Soumitra leads global and national campaigns, field trials for glacier preservation in the Himalayas, and policy advocacy to catalyze urgent, science-based responses to climate change. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University and an MBA from the Wharton School.