Mr Atul Mittal

South Asia Director, Growth, Sistema.bio

Mr Mittal is an accomplished, creative and entrepreneurial senior executive with twenty-four years of professional experience. He has demonstrated proven success in community mobilisation, carbon financing, brand development and establishing renewable energy products such as solar cookstoves, water purifiers and, more recently, biogas. He has worked with major brands including British Petroleum, Philips Electronics, Max New York Life and Wockhardt, as well as social start-ups such as d.light solar and MicroEnergy Credits.

He is currently South Asia Director, Growth, with Sistema.bio – a social enterprise that provides smallholder dairy farmers with biogas technology, services and financing. This enables smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity and net income while improving the environmental sustainability of their farms. Since March 2019, Mr Mittal has been working to establish biogas digesters for smallholder farmers in India, South Asia and East African countries through partnerships. He is actively collaborating with private dairies, foundations, rural entrepreneurship organisations and government bodies to promote the use of biogas – not only for cooking, but also for biofertiliser production, electricity generation and livelihood operations – making every farmer in India more self-reliant.

Mr Mittal has outstanding sector expertise in social marketing, social franchising, small enterprise development and integrated development management, with a particularly strong track record in renewable energy products and livelihood programmes, which he has successfully implemented in India, South Asia and East African countries.