Divya Karnad
Marine Ecologist, Geographer & Co-founder, InSeason Fish With over a decade of experience in coastal and marine conservation, Divya’s unique approach combining seafood consumption and marine conservation has won her several international accolades. InSeason Fish is India’s first sustainable seafood initiative which provides a seasonal guide to consuming seafood sustainably. She is also an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. Most recently, she became the first Indian woman to win the Future for Nature Award, a global conservation award given to three people across the world every year.Himanshu Arteev
Permaculturist & Co-founder, Ananas Design Himanshu is a permaculturist with a background in sustainable architecture, water management and landscape design. His work revolves around designing whole systems with a regenerative approach. He co-founded Ananas, an ecological landscape design company based in Bangalore, designing systems that grow food forests, harness and conserve water, restore soil and build systems that eventually take care of themselves using permaculture techniques. Their work ranges from rural farms to urban commons, small landscapes to large scale restoration and reforestation, using permaculture techniques. Himanshu also works on sustainable water management and wetland design with architecture studio Biome and is a landscape designer for Afforestt.Ramya Ramamurthy
Communications Specialist, The Good Food Institute India & Co-host, Feeding 10 Billion Podcast Ramya is a media professional with 18 years of work experience spanning print media, broadcast television news, documentary filmmaking and digital media. She is the Communications Specialist at The Good Food Institute (GFI) India, an organisation working with scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs focused on making cultivated meat and plant-based alternatives to animal products. She co-hosts the IVM podcast Feeding 10 Billion along with The Good Food Institute’s Varun Deshpande. She is also a published author – her first book Re-Build – How Brands In India Overcame Crisis and Emerged Stronger, Better, Wiser, commissioned by Hachette Publishers, has been in bookstores and online since April 2018.Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi (Moderator)
Food Writer Roshni, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute (now International Culinary Centre) in NYC, lives in Mumbai and writes mostly about food and travel. She’s a contributing editor at Vogue magazine, and her words have also been found in Conde Nast Traveller, Mint Lounge, Scroll.in, The Hindu, Saveur, The Guardian, and Travel + Leisure, among others. Roshni also writes a regular column called Pantry Trippin’ for Paper Planes, where she unearths the cultural connections of cookware and other kitchen paraphernalia from around the world.
