Chandran Nair FRSA

Chandran Nair is CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) a social ventures think tank based in Hong Kong, which he founded in 2005.

Previously he was Chairman of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Asia Pacific until 2004, establishing the company as Asia's leading environmental consultancy. For more than a decade he has strongly advocated a more sustainable approach to development in Asia, advising governments and multinational corporations to instil their policies and key decision-making processes with these principles.

He is the author of Consumptionomics: Asia’s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet.