Consortium Board Members

Ganesan Balachander’s career interests have ranged from banking to environmental conservation. He is now starting up a Green Bank with a triple bottom line: good for business, good for the environment, and good for poor people.

Ganesan represented the interests of South Asia at the Ford Foundation until 2008. Before that he was the director for Asia programs at the Mountain Institute in Washington, D.C., managing conservation projects in Tibet, China, Nepal, and India. For a decade from the early 1990s he worked for community-based environmental management and development organizations in Asia and North America. From 1996 until 1999, he served as regional director and then as director of the Biodiversity Conservation Network, a program promoting conservation of vulnerable ecosystems in Asia.

Before charting a career in conservation and sustainable development, Ganesan worked for many years in the banking sector, holding senior positions with Citibank and Marine Midland Bank in New York, and Standard Chartered Bank in Europe and Chennai, India.