Sunder has served as an Advisor in Development Consulting at ICRA Management Consulting Services Ltd (IMaCS), a trans-disciplinary consulting firm. He has worked across IMaCS’s consulting verticals, including International Development, Infrastructure, Urban Development, Energy, and Corporate Sector, providing advisory leadership to many mandates and team support to a range of multilateral, bilateral, and other clients including UNICEF, World Bank, ADB, Water and Sanitation Program South Asia, DFID, KfW, USAID, WASTE, and various governments and government organisations at national and subnational levels.
He is also an independent development researcher and consultant, and worked with clients including DFID, UNICEF, NORAD, WSP-SA, and occasionally, with India Canada Environment Facility, and WaterAid. Sunder has worked on multiple sectoral verticals in the International Development space since 1996, and had played leadership roles and as key team member in various mandates. He has over 20 years of highly multi-disciplinary experience in academia, industry, the non-profit sector, development research and consulting. His research/consulting domains include Water, Wastewater, & Sanitation; Urban Development, Infrastructure & Planning; Investment Climate and Analyses; PPP; Regulatory Regimes; Climate Change & Adaptation; mountain development and systems, Environmental & Public Health; Environment and Livelihoods; Indigenous Peoples and Systems, NRM, Renewable Energy, ICT4D, Biological Diversity, Landscapes, Protected Areas and Conservation, CSR and CR, KM and KM4D. Sunder’s primary functional consulting areas include Policy Research & Analyses; Sector Studies, Regulatory Governance and Research; Programme Design and Management; M&E.
He interests includes policy and regulatory reforms; global sustainability; climate change, impacts and adaptation; economics of development; international relations; natural history; wildlife ecology; the mathematics of chaos; fuzzy logic and fuzzy theories; artificial intelligence and theoretical and experimental high energy physics. His sectoral portfolio and expertise spans to water supply, sanitation and related public health and epidemiological issues, emergencies, relief and rehabilitation, environmental health, information and communication technologies (ICTs), energy, education, human rights (especially relating to women and children), policy research and analyses, and program/project design and management, monitoring and evaluation, among others.
Sunder is also an avid mountaineer, trekker, photographer, reader (both non-fiction and fiction) and writer.