Kanika is an accomplished CSR and Sustainability expert, with over a decade of experience in the field. She is credited with strategizing, designing and implementing several environment and social programmes in the corporate sector across stakeholders. She has worked with Sony Pictures Network and is currently working with Unilever. Also, she has assumed the role of a social entrepreneur, and has founded Solutions for Clean and Healthy Environment (SoCHE) Foundation to work on the issues of social upliftment and environment conservation.
Previously, she was spearheading the environment vertical of a leading tyre manufacturing organisation. There she worked specifically on the issues of biodiversity enhancement, emission reduction, water conservation, sanitation, waste management and poverty alleviation, aligned with national and international development agenda. She was also front leading the sustainability reporting and framework design there.
Kanika has also got felicitated with the 50 Most Talented CSR Leader citation by World CSR Day, and is also part of the Advisory Council of World Sustainability Congress for contribution in the sustainability field. She is amongst the youngest professionals to be part for EY Women Business Leaders Network.
Ms Pal has a Professional Masters Degree in CSR from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, where she extensively researched on the issue of end-of-life tyre waste in India in the absence of any producer responsibility law. In her spare time, she actively writes on sustainability issues and also enjoys delivering guest lectures on the subject at different institutions of repute.