
Anirban Kundu
Senior ESG Consultant
Anthesis
Anirban is a senior sustainability consultant at Anthesis Consulting (Canada) Inc., where he advises clients in environmental, social, and climate change matters, and co-creates sustainability programs with brilliant teams across service lines (ESG, climate, nature, circularity). Anirban holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from McGill University, an SCR credential from GARP, and has academic research experience in biofuel engineering, environmental nanotechnology, and applied microbiology. Prior to Anthesis, Anirban was a Program Manager with the Impact Challenge in Climate Innovation team at Google.org, where he assisted in evaluating AI-based climate mitigation and adaptation solutions. Outside work, Anirban holds senior leadership positions in the Canadian Science Policy Centre (managing the Editorial committee of Canada’s largest science policy community) and in Wavemakers Canada (Board Member of Canada’s only Work-Integrated Learning Program for post-secondary students). Anirban’s research and professional interests are in socio-environmental assessments, double materiality, biodiversity conservation, climate risk, and innovative pedagogies for teaching and capacity building. Anirban speaks English, French (still learning!), Bengali, and Hindi, loves stage theatre and salsa, and is an aspiring professional chef!