Svati Bhogle

Svati Bhogle is the Chairperson of TIDE, a nonprofit that specializes in biomass combustion technologies. She is also the Chairperson of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN) a network of more than 200 decentralized renewable energy practitioners in India. In a long career spanning over three decades, she has worked in diverse aspects of cooking energy, including research, cookstove design and development, dissemination, and advocacy in the clean energy sector. She has also developed and disseminated biomass-based stoves and dryers for a variety of other applications, such as post-harvest processing, herbal medicine preparation, sericulture, textile bleaching and dyeing, etc. She is a recipient of several awards including the Ashden Award, and the National Award for Women’s Development Through Science and Technology of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.