Principal research scientist at National Physical Laboratory, technical lead for emission and carbon measurement scientific area. Long history of working in standardisation, Former Chairman and Quality officer of STA, involved in developing uk methods eg instrumental SO2, Vice Chair of CEN air quality technical committee, Chairman of UK mirror BSI group, EH 2/1, and convenor of CEN flow and data quality (EN14181) working groups.
Sanjeev K. Kanchan is a distinguished environment and sustainability expert from India, with nearly two decades of leadership in research, consulting, and strategic advisory. He has spearheaded high-impact projects on environmental management, sustainability, and industrial decarbonization for global think tanks, and has held senior roles across monitoring technology companies, data intelligence firms, and consulting organizations.
Sanjeev’s work bridges policy, technology, and practice. He has collaborated closely with regulators, policymakers, industry leaders, technology developers, and civil society organizations, delivering solutions across a diverse geographic footprint—including South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the EU, the UK, Africa, Australia, and the USA.
In India, he has been instrumental in shaping environmental governance through the development of regulatory tools for pollution monitoring, emissions and effluent discharge standards, environmental reporting frameworks, and compliance systems. His technical expertise spans industrial emissions, water and effluent monitoring, real-time monitoring systems, compliance audits, and capacity-building programs.
A respected voice in the field, Sanjeev has authored numerous guidelines, manuals, policy papers, and technical reports, many of which serve as standard references for stakeholders in the environmental and regulatory ecosystem.
Roland Zepeck, by profession a chemical engineer for process chemistry, has been active during his professional career in multiple assignments for various companies around the world in both Environmental Monitoring as well as Combustion Technology (mainly Thermal Power Generation). For Environmental Monitoring the assignments included R&D for various environmental analyzers (Dust/PM, Total Mercury, Hydrocarbons, SOX, NOx, CO, O3, O2), systems design for air quality monitoring stations and networks, systems design for Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS), and design of Emission Monitoring Sampling Systems (both dilution based as well as direct sampling based). He is active in the Indian environmental market since 1986.
Currently he operates his own consulting firm IBD-International Business Development, strategically supporting companies in their international expansion. He is a long-term member of VDI (Association of German Engineers), is associated with the International Centre for Sustainable Carbon (ICSC, UK), and also serves as member of the Advisory Board to the Powerplant Technology Conference of University Dresden, Germany. He has published a large number of papers on environmental monitoring on combustion technology issues and is an experienced speaker on international conferences and workshops.
Masters in Chemistry, Doctorate in Environment Project Management and Industrial Hygienist from BOSH UK. Having 27 years of Experience in Environmental Projects, Monitoring and Management with different organizations like National Productivity Council (Govt of India), SGS India Pvt Ltd, CVR Labs (AB Houston Group), SMS, Knowledge Lens and presently with Amara Raja Group of companies. Undergone training by German Experts (GTZ) and Indian Experts on environmental projects, monitoring, dispersion modelling, performance efficiency studies of APCD, ETP etc. Project Head for different environmental projects to CPCB, APCB, GPCB, MPCB, TNPCB and CEA (Srilanka), ATTEST (Saudi Arabia). Experienced in CEMS and CEQMS Performance Calibration as per EN14181 and Relative Accuracy Test Audit (RATA). Experienced in design of ETP, ETP-ZLD and STP system and conduct Adequacy and Efficacy study of ETP – ZLD & STP systems. Various Training programmes are conducted in the topic of “Air Pollution, Effluent Treatment Plant, Air Pollution Control Equipments, Industrial Hygiene with Risk Assessment, “Hazardous Waste, Coprocessing in Cement Plants, Indoor Air Quality etc., India, Srilanka, Bangkok, Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Pratima Singh is the Director for Air Pollution and Waste Management at the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST). She leads initiatives on clean air action planning, challenges around open burning (biomass, solid waste and agri-burning), dust mitigation and industrial decarbonization. She also focuses on other aspects as regulations, compliance, enforcement, and, working closely with government, regulators, industry, and civil society to develop evidence-based strategies and strengthen institutional capacity through training programs.
Previously, Dr. Singh was with the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), where she contributed to developing the Air Pollution vertical in the organisation and carry out research on air quality mitigation and management at state and national-level, with a focus on linking scientific analysis to policy frameworks.
She holds a Ph.D. in Energy and GHG emissions, which was a collaborative study between TERI-SAS and University of Birmingham. Her research interests include air pollution mitigation, energy transitions, climate policy, and sustainable industrial practices.
Dr. Vidyanand M. Motghare, received Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Nagpur University in 2016. He works with Maharashtra Pollution Control Board as Joint Director and having experience of 29 years in the Environment field.
He also worked for 4 years in Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (Govt. of Maharashtra undertaking) looking after sewage collection and treatment schemes, water supply projects.
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Mr J.S.Kamyotra is an Environment Expert and an alumni of Delhi College of Engineering. He has been the Member Secretary of Central Pollution Control Board, the country’s premier environment decision making body, for 5 years.
Mr. Kamyotra has over 40 years experience working in policy formulation, development of environmental standards, establishment of real time monitoring networks in the areas of air quality, water and noise pollution. He has also been responsible for indigenous development of mobile air quality monitoring van.
Mr. Kamyotra has been a member of various National Policy Planning Committees and various environmental committees constituted by the Honourable Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal. He has a number of publications to his credit He has been the country’s representative in various international conferences and committees focusing on sustainable development in developing countries particularly ASEAN and the SAARC region. He is a member of the OECD Committee on Standards Development, member Pollution Working Group of Global Regional Initiatives and Facilitator for Male Declaration. He has travelled widely both in India and abroad, coordinating various European and Canadian bilateral programmes and projects to assess the mitigative technologies available that can be successfully imbibed in developing countries, such as India.
Was Consultant at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal and working with Regional Resource Centre for Asia and Pacific (RRC.AP) located at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand in developing Scoping Study document for Maleʹ Declaration member countries.
Was Member Expert Appraisal Committee for Industry I & II Sectors Constituted by MoEF&CC and Member State Level Environment Expert Assessment Authority, Chandigarh Constituted under provision of Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 as amended. Technical Expert (Air Pollution & Administrative Matters) Punjab Pollution Control Board and Environment Consultant for other Organisations.
Currently working as Senior Principal Scientist in Environmental Sciences & Biomedical Metrology Division of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory and having 20 years of research experience in the field of Earth’s Environmental Systems. Also, deputed to Indian Antarctic Research base “Bharati” as Expedition Leader & Station Commander during Dec. 2011 to Jan. 2013.
At present, leading the testing, calibration & certification activity related to the product for emission & ambient air monitoring at NPL-India and working to establish a PAN-INDIA quality framework for Emission and Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Systems.
Mr. Stephen Norfleet is the president of Agora Environmental Consulting (formerly RMB Consulting & Research, Inc.). For over 30 years, he has helped utility and industrial clients address emissions monitoring, testing requirements, environmental reporting, compliance strategies, control optimization, and plant performance issues. From regulatory assessments to environmental audits to emissions method research and accuracy improvements, he has worked with a variety of sources, industry groups, and EPA to improve emissions monitoring and reporting.
