Dr Suneel Pandey is Senior Fellow and Director, Environment & Waste Management Division, TERI. In addition, he is Director, Emerson Centre of Excellence for Sustainability Studies at the TERI School of Advanced Studies. He has more than 30 years of consultancy/ research experience in the areas of municipal, industrial and hospital waste management, plastic waste management, waste-to-energy issues, impact assessment, air, water and soil quality monitoring, site assessments, performance evaluation of ETP and institutional strengthening and capacity building. He has obtained his Ph. D. degree in hazardous waste characterization from Nagpur University while working as Project Fellow at NEERI, Nagpur. He has MSc, Analytical Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, India and did his BSc, Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University, India. In recent years, his research work included circular economy, resource efficiency, marine litter policy framework and solar PV waste recycling framework.
Prior to joining TERI, Suneel has worked for ERM India as Consultant for two years, where he was working on projects related to hazardous and hospital waste management, environmental site assessments and institutional strengthening and capacity building. Suneel has also worked as Research Assistant at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on development of landfill liner for containment of land disposed hazardous waste and University of Hong Kong on deriving material balances and associated environmental pollution for Hong Kong region as part of Post Doctoral Research.
As a subject expert, he is chairman of committee constituted by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on supporting circular economy in e-waste management, expert for proposal evaluation in committees constituted by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Technology Development Board (TDB) and Biotechnology Industrial Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).
