Srinivasan Sunderasan isEconomist at Verdurous Solutions Private Limited (Mysore, India),an Investment advisory and consultancy specializing in management and financing aspects of renewable energy, microfinance, water, waste and other ‘sustainable development’ initiatives. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Country Manager (India) of Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative (PVMTI), an Investment Officer with the South Asian Region for Solar Development Group (SDG) and Triodos Renewable Energy for Development Fund. Heobtained his PhD from University of Vienna, Austria in 2005 specializing in Business Economics.