Ram Babu

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Biography

Dr. Ram Babu served as Chief Executive Officer at RSM GC Advisors. Mr. Ram has over 35 years of professional experience with institutions including National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers and CantorCO2e. Ram's consulting experience covers a whole range of sustainable development and corporate governance practices. Mr. Ram has helped Governments and Multilateral Agencies in areas including developing regional sustainable development plans, defining policy instruments based on life cycle assessments & substance flow analysis and investigating effectiveness of market based instruments in addressing regional environmental problems. Mr. Ram's work includes environment impact assessments, environment & energy audits, development of quality & environment management systems and corporate governance bench marking. From 1999, Ram focused on developing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. Ram has participated in setting up many of the systems and processes of the Clean Development Mechanism, which includes development of methodologies. He was involved in registration of over 50 projects and issuance of over 25 million CERs. Ram has led some of the early transactions in the compliance and voluntary markets and has been instrumental in developing a variety of carbon finance structures. Mr. Ram often chairs panel discussions and is a speaker at events organized by IETA, Point Carbon and Environmental Finance etc. Dr. Ram holds Doctorate in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.