Mr. Saurabh Kumar is a Senior Advisor at Artha Global.

He is an independent Consultant and an energy Transition Leader. He was the Head of GEAPP in India until recently. Prior to that he was the Executive Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of public-sector undertakings under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. EESL has implemented the globally-lauded UJALA programme and Street Light National Programme (SLNP), E-Mobility,, smart meters, trigeneration and decentralised solar power plants. Prior to joining EESL, he worked in Ministries of Finances and Power, Bureau of Energy Efficiency and UN Environment Program. He has worked on energy efficiency policies and programmes. In his stint with EESL, he led the growth of the company from less than $1 m turnover in 2013 to over $400 m in 2021 with operations in the UK, UAE, South Asia. He has worked for over 30 years in Ministries of Finance and Power and also with the UN.

He also worked as an Independent Consultant working with World Bank, GIZ, USAID, etc in the field of Clean Energy in India, South Asia and Africa.

Mr. Kumar is an Electrical Engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Masters in Public Policy from National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan