Sai Avinash

Senior Team Coordinator and Project Officer

Background

With almost a decade of experience in handling and delivering IT solutions, after graduating in Computer Science, I began my journey with Cognizant as a web developer and spent 6 years crafting innovative digital solutions, mastering the art of coding, and delivering intuitive web experiences.

Having a natural aptitude for leadership and a passion for process improvement, I transitioned seamlessly into the role of Scrum Master. For the past 3 years, I was involved in agile transformations in a startup environment, driving teams towards greater efficiency, collaboration, and project success. With a love of nature and a process-driven mindset, I am fortunate to get to work with Forum and look forward to playing my part in steering global minds towards a sustainable Earth.

My dream project

I started trekking and travelling India since 2016 and it is heartbreaking to see beautiful, untouched places of India being littered and humans leaving their carbon print. In addition to making destinations less attractive, this litter and pollution can have detrimental effects on local people and wildlife. My dream project would be travelling the distant places of the world for a cause to show the real nature and inspire the travelling community in promoting litter free and responsible travel.

What floats my boat outside work?

I love being in nature and I draw calmness and peace from it. Being an avid nature photographer, you would often find me lost in nature capturing the wilderness. I have a deep fascination towards rejuvenating sunsets, mountains and waterfalls and transforming them into timeless works of art by capturing them. I enjoy travelling to unexplored places in the world and wait for the right moment to capture them in their best form. My work has garnered international recognition, with the Natgeo and Earth social media accounts featuring some of my photographs.

On a lazy day, I also spend my day watching cricket and playing video games.

Latest

Climate Innovation Forum 2024

The Climate Innovation Forum returns for the sixth year as a Flagship Event of London Climate Action Week on Thursday 27 June 2024 in London’s Guildhall.
Reshaping local food systems to thrive and adapt

Solutions to challenges in the food system are often too generic, global, and do not consider the local context where changes and impacts play out. For actors to enable deeper systemic impact, they need to apply place-based approaches that engender locally tailored and appropriate food transition solutions, allowing them to reimagine and reshape rural and urban food systems.
Scaling just and regenerative food supply

Farming and fishing techniques need to put back more that they take out, restoring the very soil, the waters and the ecosystems they depend on. The answer isn’t something new; it’s something old: regenerative practices have been around for millennia. It’s time to harness the potential of this global transition to shift the goals of our food system away from extractive practices, and towards ones that nourish nature and communities alike.
Reframing food narratives

Global food systems as we know it today have been shaped by particular dominant mindsets and priorities. To get to food systems that are just and regenerative, we need to reframe the narratives about their goals and priorities, concerning both what food systems are for and the nature of the change needed to get there.

Stuti Mishra

Senior Team Coordinator and Project Officer
Josh Weinberg

Associate Director of Finance
Libby Lyon

Senior Change Designer
Rowan Kinchin

Network Operations Director at the School of System Change
Glen Jones-Smythe

Interim Global Financial Controller
Duncan Williams

Principal - Food and Regenerative Agriculture
Ayesha Khosla

Senior Sustainability Strategist
Aditi Khurana

Senior Fundraising and Development Manager
Siva Balasubramanian

Principal Sustainability Strategist
Lisa Ivanow

Administrative Assistant

The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

The Five Capitals Model provides a basis for understanding sustainability in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘capital’. Any organisation will use five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and where possible enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
For a just and regenerative future

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.
Growing our Future US

Working together to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative agriculture system in the United States.
Sustainability and system change

Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.
What is Net Positive?

We reinvent strategies for a 1.5°C world. Our Net Positive approach helps business put back more into society and environment than it takes out. Unilever’s pioneering commitment to eliminate fossil fuels from its operations and directly support the generation of more renewable energy than they consume was driven behind the scenes by Forum.
Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Recently, the word transportation is being replaced with mobility. Why is this happening? What’s the difference between them? And why should we care about this change?
6 ways Unilever has achieved success through sustainability - and how your business can too

A year ago this week, Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), one of the most ambitious strategies that a global company has ever embarked on. Pioneering a bold new business model, the company pledged to double in size at the same time as halving its environmental footprint.
Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming system change programmes and express your interest.
Transforming the Purpose of Business

More and more businesses like are setting ambitious targets for positive impact on their operations, value chains and wider operating context. For more than 25 years we have partnered with businesses to navigate this complexity and design impactful solutions that deliver the deeper change that’s needed. Why not get in touch to find out more?