Board of Directors
Mr. Upendra Tripathy
Independent Director
Mr. Upendra Tripathy is the former Director General of International Solar Alliance. He is the first and founding Director General of ISA
In ex-officio capacity, he has headed as chairperson, Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), National Institute of Solar Energy and National Institute of Wind Energy, National Institute of Bio Energy, and Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS).
Mr. Tripathy is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka Cadre, known for his innovations, ideas and hard work. He has worked with local, provincial and union government in India over the last 40 years and was the eighteenth Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, established in 1982.
He has served in other important positions such as Adviser (Agriculture and Marine Products) in the Indian Embassy in Brussels; Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat; Joint Secretary, Minority Affairs and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas in the Central Government; as well as Chairperson of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board. He has worked in several sectors such as Revenue Administration, Rural Development, Petroleum Conservation, Agriculture & Horticulture, Agricultural Marketing, Education, Environment & Transportation, and Renewable Energy.
Mr. Tripathy has a Master’s degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Master's in Public Administration from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has undergone various training programme in areas of programme implementation, financial management, sustainable development, quantitative methods and operational research for public policy and management and e-governance. He has undergone a six weeks SIDA training programme in Sweden in areas of environmental management.
Awards
Silver Award from Harmony for having brought fundamental changes in Transport system in Bangalore in 2007
International Gold Star Millennium Award under Persons of Indian Origin Conclave-Invest in India in 2007
Citizen Extraordinary Award for contribution in introducing innovative changes in Bangalore in 2008
Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration – for his work in transforming a city transport undertaking in Bangalore into a profit making one, in 2009.
Other awards that recognise his achievements are - Central Board of Irrigation and Power Award for outstanding contribution to India's Renewable Energy Sector (2016), 10th Enertia Life Time Achievement Award (2016) and UBM (2016) as Crusader of the year for Renewable Energy.
He has published one volume of poetry from Writer's Workshop titled "Caged".