Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: Women Empowerment in Impact Investing (September 10, 2021)

Special Guests: Jaydeep Mandal, Founder of Aakar Innovation & Aakar Social Ventures

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Aakar Innovation & Aakar Social Ventures founder Jaydeep Mandal is a leading figure in the Menstrual Hygiene & Health sector globally having innovated and created the first ~100% compostable sanitary napkin certified by the highest lab of the Govt of India. Jaydeep is protege of the National Innovation Foundation of the Department of Science & Technology of the Govt of India. He is an important contributor and Advisory member of the Bureau of Indian Standards Committee for new standards for Sanitary pads published in Oct 2019. He features in the select group of PMO & Niti-Aayog's "Champions of Change".

Jaydeep has won Bio-based materials of the year award 2019-Germany, Global Bioplastics Award 2018-Germany for Compostable Anandi pads which are treated as Oscars of Bio-Industry. Jaydeep is an Engineer and MBA in Innovations and Entrepreneurship with a Global Innovation Program certificate from GSB-Stanford University-USA. He has 12+ years of experience in menstrual hygiene, rural innovation and micro-enterprise development as an entrepreneur, consultant/advisor. His work is acclaimed by several governments, World Bank, UN organizations, UKAID, USAID & International NGOs like Aga Khan Foundation, President of India, CII, FICCI, UN, Miss World Organisation and Miss India Organization for innovation and entrepreneurship in the menstrual hygiene sector.