Rishi has been a key player in business and human rights for many years and has the advantage of having seen how BHR developments have played out from inside companies, across regions and through a broad range of human rights challenges as well as stakeholder positions. GBI first engaged with Rishi working on our Roundtable and CEO engagements in India over a decade ago when he worked with a GBI member company.
Rishi is a specialist in Business & Human Rights (B&HR), Supply Chain Sustainability and Manufacturing. His work goes beyond traditional audits and towards creating meaningful dialogue on opportunities and challenges of businesses, especially in supply chains. His passion is to design and implement innovative solutions for businesses that create positive impacts on people, planet, and performance. To bridge the gap between theory and practice in B&HR, Rishi also engages with academic institutions (India, UK & Canada) for action research projects. He has directly trained more than 1,150 managers and workers on Responsible Business practices and facilitated various multistakeholder forums on Business & Human Rights- in the Electronics sector (in Chennai) and Garments sector (India & Bangladesh).
Rishi is frequently a keynote speaker at local and global events and forums. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, MBA in International Business from the University of Birmingham (UK), trained in transformative methods by Landmark Education and certified project manager from Deloitte.