Seema brings thought leadership to entities' long-term sustainability and sustainable finance and is the inventor of

1) A standardised methodology to discover entities' Purpose

2) The design of entities' qualitative and quantitative universal ESG metrics with comparable* sustainability performance

3) A standardised methodology for executing data science projects for credit & compliance risk quantification and other use cases leading to holistic credit risk ratings and quantified underwritings

 

She defines that an entity becomes sustainable for the long term when it directly/indirectly contributes towards its ecosystem with a multi-stakeholder focus.

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Seema is a servant leader, a culture sense maker, a process & data expert, and a sustainability & sustainable finance thought leader. Systems thinking comes to her naturally when solving strategic problems. She has a unique way to quantify credit & compliance risk. The universal ESG metrics with comparable sustainability performance and the asset class built considering them alongside financials and compliance aspects in an authentic manner through holistic credit risk rating and quantified underwritings, enable innovation in sustainable finance across sustainable loans, bonds, fund, indices etc at scale & speed. It will revolutionise blended sustainable finance across development finance, climate capital, transition finance, impact investing, etc. and bring scale and speed in mobilising private capital in EMDEs including for MSMEs. MDBs, NDBs, philanthropies and others leverage on holistic credit risk rating and quantified underwriting to accurately assess credit risks while deploying concessional finance, guarantees, grants etc. Additionally, visibility on authentic  impacts on the ground will bring accountability and help these entities raise more capital for the same. 

 

She has created the standardised transformation methodology CTM (Change thru Movement) centred on entities purpose for their longterm sustainability, culture change, innovation/scale-ups, digital transformation, standardised versions of just & resilient netzero transition plans including universal ESG metrics with comparable sustainability performance etc. and has two versions. The first (2018) became the foundation for the development & deployment of regTech product Compliance by Design (CBD) for corporate and investment banks with its reusable features around holistic credit risk ratings and quantified underwritings accessible to anyone furthering SME financing too. It makes the bank clean, robust, purposeful and sustainable for the future. Its second version (2020-22), results in direct or indirect deployment and disclosure of standardised versions of just and resilient netZero transition plans deploying full or part CTM for entities across the financial and real economy. It helps them become sustainable for the longterm and achieve their fair share of direct or indirect climate goals and all UN-SDGs by 2030. At a minimum it includes Purpose Discovery and applicable qualitative and quantitative universal ESG metrics with sustainability performance that will be easily comparable upon third party review. Their standardised disclosure versions can become part of entites’ sustainability report. In this, GHGs measurements are done by externals/partners and a governance framework is embedded in these plans. At the highest level the dir/indirect impacts towards entities’ purpose aligning with their fair share of climate goals and all SDGs by 2030, map with WBG’s scorecards’s client context indicators. All these have become components of entity-level systemic change and SEEM is a sustainability consulting and regTech product company today.

 

She is qualified as an Electrical Engineer from IIEST, Shibpur, India and had started her career in the software industry. She faced multiple career transitions and in the journey gained experience across people, process and digital technology with the chance to see organisations from diverse perspectives. After her 18 years of corporate roles with Deutsche Bank, SITA, SGX, ING Bank (IBM), ATOS, TechM, TCS and Crompton Greaves, she founded SEEM – Sustainability through Engagement, Empowerment & Mobilisation at the end of 2017, with a mission to create an ecosystem that nurtures entities to thrive, grow and become sustainable for the future. She is also the founder of TREEBANK that is born with a mission to value each tree as a true asset to own. Outside of work, she loves nature, yoga and family time.

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