Former Cheif, Centre for Environment at WAPCOS
Former Senior Vice President at IL&FS Ecosmart Ltd.

Dr. Somnath Mukherjee obtained PhD from IIT, Bombay on Environment from Civil Engineering Department in 1981. He worked as Executive Director, AECOM, a fortune 500 company, and one of the largest consultancy firms in the world with turnover of more than 22 billion USD. Before joining AECOM, he was Senior Vice President in IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services Ltd. He was Chief of Centre of Environment in WAPCOS India Ltd. He also worked in CSIR, ONGC and NTPC. He has 36 years of professional experience and five years of research experience in the field of environment. During his professional career of 42 years, he has conducted/ headed more than 700 environmental projects for various government, private and Multilateral Financial Agencies.  He has been a member of several national and international committees including member of International Cooperation Committee of IAIA (USA) and member of Technology Evaluation Panel of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He was a visiting faculty of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Dr. Mukherjee was the Indian Mission Leader for Water Security in South Asia, a project in collaboration with University of Hawaii and John Hopkins, USA. He was invited by UN as an expert on Water Resources for Bhutan. He has worked for ADB as a consultant and lenders Engineer for IFC for two years. He is the member of Technical Committee of NABET (2016-2020). He has worked extensively on design, and implementation of Waste Management, Contamination Assessment and Remediation, Smart City projects, development of Mega Infrastructure projects, EIA and HSE projects in various countries. Have undertaken and various other environmental studies for more than 50 power project and many are funded by The World Bank. Have worked extensively on Environmental and social framework for WBG projects.