Dr S N Srinivas is currently working as Consultant to UN agencies - UNDP (India and Bangkok), UNIDO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Administrative Staff College of India. He holds PhD (Mechanical Engineering). He has 30 years of work experience in the development sector. His expertise is in Energy for Development: Energy Access, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change Mitigation, and Corporate Social Responsibility. He contributed to technology development, innovation, and holds patents.

He has lead/ facilitated implementation of over 200 projects, led innovation & facilitated technology transfers, published over 100 books, papers, articles, provided over 100 talks & guided about 50 interns/Masters/PhD students. He received many awards for his contributions. For more information see my website https://sites.google.com/view/srinivasshroff/home

He served as first CEO of REC Foundation, one of the top 10 CSR Implementing arm of REC Limited, a Central Public Sector Enterprise under Ministry of Power for a tenure of 3 years. He operationalized the Foundation & provided leadership. He developed white paper providing governance/organizational/ operational structure with a 5 year roadmap. He led entire project implementation cycle from signing MOA, implementation, disbursements of funds, facilitating impact assessment, documentation & outreach. He was responsible to Compliance & reported to the Governing Body of REC Foundation, CSR Committee of Directors and Board of Directors of REC Limited. He contributed to the development of aspirational districts, addressing first & second wave of COVID.

Earlier, he worked as CEO at Clean Energy Access Network in New Delhi, worked with stakeholders promoting Decentralised Renewable Energy Solutions. As Programme Analyst in UNDP-India (New Delhi) on Energy & Climate Change, he implemented UNDP/ GEF funded projects. He was UN Focal point & facilitated signing 'UN as Strategic Partner of International Solar Alliance'. Direct rolling, an innovation he led, avoided the need for a reheating furnace in a composite steel mill and saved about Rs 1500 Cr in 300 mini-steel plants in India. He was Fellow & Area Convener at The Energy and Resources Institute. He led multidisciplinary team in the area of Rural & Renewable Energy. He worked as Project Engineer at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, running one of the first mini-grids in India. He worked as Lecturer at Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Davangere, Karnataka, taught subjects like Dynamics of Machinery & Heat Transfer.