Raja Chakraborti
Hyderabad
Summary
Accomplished development and sustainability professional with 24 years of experience in strategic leadership roles across India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Proven expertise in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing large-scale socio-economic and environmental projects with measurable impact. Adept at building high-performing teams, managing complex stakeholder relationships, and driving organizational growth. Specialized in carbon project development, sustainable agriculture, and rural livelihoods with a strong track record of scaling operations from concept to multi-million dollar initiatives.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Earthbanc
India
09.2023 - Current
- Led the scaling of operations from 3 to 250 team members across India and Kenya
- - Spearheaded the successful plantation of 23 million trees across 3,500 hectares of degraded land in Meghalaya and Rift Valley regions of Kenya during 2024 as per CBA principles
- - Managing operations for the overall 110 million tree planting target across 32,600 hectares (2023-2027), parallelly creating sustainable livelihoods through carbon revenue and agro-commodities for over 25,000 farmers
- - Established and oversee key operational verticals: Stakeholder Engagement, Operations, Reporting, and Corporate Services for India & Kenya
- - Building an innovative community managed tree forestry conservation idea with 300+ local youth leadership network as Earth Guardian in Meghalaya
Senior Advisor
Muultiple
Kampala, Kinshasa
04.2021 - 09.2023
- **Strategic Advisor - Development Projects**
- - Provided strategic support to large-scale initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda & DR Congo)
- - Advised on program design, implementation frameworks, and monitoring systems for building application based farming system development protocols for marginal farmers on sustainable agriculture and climate resilience practices in Uganda
- - Helped DR Congo Government in developing 2 agro park business case to ensure support from African Development Bank
Associate Director
EY Foundation
Hyderabad
12.2014 - 04.2021
- *Senior Leadership Team Member As Associate Director**
- - Helped in building Empowerment and Environment portfolios under EY Foundation from scratch
- - Led the Project & partnership management for 12 projects in building capacity of rural women (Over 3,00,000 Women members from 2000+ villages) to improve income opportunities, through formation and strengthening of women institutions and improved livelihood opportunities
- - Initiated School Water and Natural Resources Management projects
- - Led grant management, partnership development, and impact measurement
Education
Master of Science - Agriculture
GB Pant University of Agriculture And Technology
Pantnagar 08-2001
Skills
- **Strategic Leadership:** Program design, operational management, team development
- - **Thematic Expertise:** Carbon project development, sustainable agriculture, climate risk mitigation, women empowerment, natural resource management
- - **Partnership Development:** Government engagement, donor relations, corporate partnerships
- - **Resource Management:** Human resource development, financial oversight, grant management
- - **Business Development:** Opportunity assessment, proposal development, stakeholder engagement
Languages
Bengali
First Language
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Accomplishments
- *Awarded National Fellowship by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), All India Rank 9th*
- University merit scholarship during entire 4 years of graduation
- Represented University in Inter University Youth Festival for 3 consecutive years in Drama, Skit, One Act Play
Professional Summary
- 10 Years of Experience in Direct Implementation of Community Development Projects working with women and resource poor farmers with Leading NGOs like PRADAN, ASA, and Oxfam in India
- 12 Years of Project, Grant, Partnership & Business development experience with leading CSRs like Syngenta Foundation and Ernst & Young Foundation
- Last 14 years in senior leadership positions mostly as Second Lead.
- Past 2 Years working as the Deputy COO for Earthbanc AB, Earthtree India and Country Director for Earthtree Kenya, one of the fastest growing Climate Tech Start Up of Europe and supporting community engagement, operations, reporting and corporate services verticals from the beginning of the projects in India and Kenya
Timeline
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Earthbanc
09.2023 - Current
Senior Advisor
Muultiple
04.2021 - 09.2023
Associate Director
EY Foundation
12.2014 - 04.2021
Master of Science - Agriculture
GB Pant University of Agriculture And Technology