A development economist with over 40 years of varied experience, Satya S. Tripathi is the Secretary-General of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, New York and Chancellor of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar – the world’s largest academic institution dedicated exclusively to indigenous people and cultures. Among other responsibilities, he serves on the Global Steering Group of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative, the Jury of Paris Peace Forum and is also a Trustee at Water Unite. He served with the UN for more than two decades in key positions across the planet and was most recently the UN Assistant Secretary-General, and Secretary of the UN Environment Management Group. Working pro-bono, he was instrumental in establishing the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) in Indonesia in 2016 and the Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) in 2017 to leverage ‘private finance for public good’ at mega-scale to achieve transformative social and environmental impact for millions of people in developing countries. He previously served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Forests.