Rohini Mukherjee
Rohini is a geoscientist and an energy professional by background with four years of professional experience with the multinational energy company Royal Dutch Shell. She received a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with a focus in Clean Energy and Corporate Sustainability. After graduating, she worked as a Consultant for Boundless Impact Investing in New York.
At Shell, she worked as a geologist and a Corporate Social Responsibility professional working to align its projects towards “Goal Zero” - i.e. attaining or striving to achieve a state of “zero harm to health, society and environment with full adherence to safe business practices.” Her deliverables included monitoring drilling operations for a super-giant oilfield in Iraq working in close liaison with drillers and well engineers, preparing well proposals, weekly summary reports, and end-of-well reports highlighting the best practices for drilling. She also led a wastewater disposal project for the oilfield comprising a team of five, delivered results within an accelerated deadline, and chaired project framing workshops and assurance reviews with challenging stakeholders. She was the Chief Editor the of IAPG (Indian Association of Petroleum Geoscientists-affiliated to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)) website and owned the weekly Geosciences Magazine for circulation to the Shell Bangalore staff comprising 90 geoscientists.
She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and a Bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences from Presidency University, India.
She has a unique background of having the perspectives of both a cornucopian and an environmentalist.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking Asian cuisines. She also is a spinning and Pilates enthusiast.