Top 10 Indian Women Steering ESG and Sustainable Finance Growth

2. Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Chairperson – Sustainability, ReNew Energy Global

Vaishali Nigam Sinha is a senior leader of India’s clean energy and ESG establishment as Co-Founder and Chairperson of Sustainability at ReNew. As a leader in clean energy and ESG, she is one of the most respected female leaders in ESG investments globally. 

She commands the net-zero journey of ReNew, taking it to the summit of ESG rankings and being mentioned in S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2025. As Founder of ReNew Foundation, she has impacted CSR programs aligned to UN SDGs with 1.5 million lives. Now, the sitting President of the UN Global Compact Network India, in 2025, she was the first leader from the private sector to be elected, exerting a global influence on sustainability policy.