Mitavachan Hiremath is the Founder Director of SusPoT – Center for Sustainability. Presently, he is also serving as a Member of Technical Advisory Group at ScienceBasedTargets initiative (SBTi), a high-level international partnership mobilizing the private sector to take the lead on urgent climate action. He has remarkable professional experience in energy, climate change and sustainability domains. Some of the international organizations wherein he worked before founding SusPoT include German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) at Bonn and the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He also gained extensive research experience on climate change and mitigation issues during his early career work assignments at Divecha Centre for Climate Change at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Over the years, his work in the field of energy and sustainability has been acknowledged by various national and international awards, including Mondialogo Engineering Award from UNESCO & Daimler, Returning Expert Award from German Development Organization-GIZ (2 times), Clean Energy Fellowship from Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and ISB Hyderabad, and International Climate Protection Fellowship for Prospective Leaders from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU).