Suraj is a Vice President at Global Carbon team at the Macquarie Group Limited and brings in 15-years of experience in the carbon market. Prior joining Macquarie, Suraj designed and developed nature-based carbon reduction/ avoidance projects under different standards including Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Verra across regions. He has worked in many countries including Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Oman, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka. Suraj previously cofounded ForestCarbon Asia Inc., a knowledge platform that brought together information on forest carbon activities in and across Asia. He also played an important role at Climate Impact Partners to identify and design ‘nature-based solutions’ (NBS) projects.
He is a Technical Advisory Committee member at the Plan Vivo Standard and sit currently on Verra’s Forest Carbon Innovations working group and Blue Carbon working group and has experience in different project types including blue carbon, reforestation, soil carbon and REDD+. Suraj is one of very few individuals who has worked across the entire carbon offset value chain, from being a project developer to now stepping into a key role at Macquarie to help quantify and assess the risks related to ‘nature-based solutions’ (NBS) project investments.