Sustainable Boardrooms Democratising Governance and Technology for Society and Economy

Apoorvi Shrivastava is an Associate Professor, Manipal Law School, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru, India, and an arbitration enthusiast. She is also an accredited associate arbitrator of Chartered Institute of Arbitration (CIArb), leading professional membership organization representing the interests of alternative dispute resolution practitioners worldwide. She also runs a Centre of Alternative Dispute Resolution and propagates narrow interpretation of public policy aspect in Indian Jurisdiction. Her research interest includes corporate law, international commercial arbitration, and role of public policy in the societal norms. She is an avid supporter of green arbitration and has written numerous papers on sustainable advancement of corporate sector by tackling human rights, environmental, and labor issues. Her public–private arbitration is applauded globally. She conducts various mediation and negotiation trainings for researchers, students, and corporates to equip them in technique to resolve disputes, crack deals in amicable manner along with considering green governance principles.

Amlan Bhusan is a public policy specialist trained at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has been a behavioral economist with Lund University, Sweden, with an independent consulting practice over two decades with many multilateral organizations across Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and the wider ASEAN region. He is currently a Policy Advisor to the Blavatnik school of Government, Oxford University, a visiting professor to the Indian Institute of Management, and an Adjunct professor to the National Institute of Technology in India. Amlan is also a director and Chairperson at the Research consultancy firm, MBI global Limited, based out of London, U.K. His research interests include social economic integration, contours of social Impact in both industrial organisations as well as academia, large-scale fund sourcing constructs and alternative finance methods, and regional economic integration on the sustainability charter. In addition, his consulting terrain further over the years has diversified into rehabilitative urbanization, labor mobility, skills development, sustainable livelihoods, and capability development for local and regional government agencies in several countries.