Brief Profile

In 2019, Kasturi was hosted by the University of Oxford as a Chevening Research, Science and Innovation Leadership Fellow of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office. She was a Ford Fellow at University of Cambridge in 2007; and the Economic and Social Research Council (UK)’s Governance of Clean Development Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia in 2011.

She has been serving as a Member of the High-Level Advisory Committee on Trade and the Environment of the Department of Commerce, Government of India. As a Member of Climate Strategies, London, she co-led a recently completed project on making trade policy work for climate. She also was an invited Member of World Economic Forum’s Expert Group on Trade and Climate Change.

Kasturi has published extensively including in the ‘Nature’ journal, ‘American Journal of International Law’, ‘Global Environmental Change’, ‘Annual Review of Environment and Resources’, among other journals of repute, apart from other categories of publications. She has delivered invited talks, lectures and presented research papers in numerous high-level conferences, conclaves and training programmes globally.

Kasturi has consulted with multiple institutions across geographies including the University of Oxford’s Martin School, United Nations, Yale School of the Environment, The Fletcher School at the Tufts University, to name a few.

At IMTG, as the Founding Head of the I’M The Change Initiative on Sustainability & Social Responsibility, Kasturi conceptualized, designed and developed an innovative, service learning initiative and got it executed for seven years (Academic Years 2016-17 to 2023-24) – working with students, faculty, and dozens of development sector partners, reaching out with modest targeted interventions to thousands of peoples belonging to under-served communities. Under her leadership, I’M The Change won the ‘Innovations the Inspire Challenge 2018’ of the AACSB International; got selected as a UN-PRME Champion; and won Gold Award at Indian Management Conclave Awards 2017. Kasturi was awarded the Wipro Earthian Research Grant by the Wipro Foundation in 2023 to develop a unique research compendium on service-learning models across management schools in India.

Kasturi is a Gold Medalist in MSc-Economics from the University of Calcutta (CU) and holds a PhD from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi.

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MDP/Executive Education