Mridula Ramesh is the award-winning author of The Climate Solution and Watershed and the founder of Sundaram Climate Institute, which focuses on waste and water solutions. She is an active climatetech angel investor with a portfolio of over thirty start-ups, and is involved with several initiatives to spur climatetech entrepreneurship. A graduate with distinction from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, she worked in McKinsey's Silicon Valley office and is the executive director of Sundaram Textiles - the company was amongst the first textile companies globally to win the coveted TPM Excellence Award. She is part of the board of trustees of World Wildlife Fund, India, the former Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, and is part of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum. She is a columnist with leading Indian newspapers, penning a monthly column in The Hindustan Times.

She lives and experiments in Madurai in a (nearly) net-zero-waste and water-secure home with her husband and two children.