Rohan Sarma

About Rohan Sarma

rohan sarma is a social scientist whose broad area of work has been to understand and analyse the dynamic relationship between Business and Society. As a Change Management specialist, rohan continues to provide strategic counsel to public sector and private sector leaders in India through Responsible Business policy and programme formulation and developing frameworks and actions plans on CSR and Sustainability. rohan’s most noteworthy contribution has been in developing the ‘Assessment and Empanelment Standards for Development Institutions in India’ (AESDII) in 2011, as one of the founding members of India’s first GoI supported and funded CSR thinktank at TISS in Mumbai.rohan is passionate about Purpose, curious about Compassionate Capitalism, an advocate of Sustainability, an avid supporter of interventions pertaining to neglected thematics, geographies and peoples, and a practitioner of interdisciplinarity, diversity and integration. He is an optimist about the transformative power of business to create a sustainable future.As a strategic communications enthusiast, rohan provided strategic counsel to global corporations on building and designing brands (with a focus on purpose and sustainability), protecting brands (from risks) through strategy and handholding to communicate a brand’s social and environmental impacts on various stakeholders. rohan has been and continues to be invited as an expert to serve on national committees and taskforces pertaining to Rural Development and Sustainable Development Goals, by India\'s leading industry body, CII. Given his contributions to the CSR and Sustainability sector in India through policy, research and thought leadership, in June 2023, rohan was invited by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt of India, India’s National Standards body, to serve on India’s first drafting committee on the National ESG Standards as the ‘Social Expert’. In September 2023, rohan was conferred additional charge as the Convenor/Chair of the Working Group on Topical Standards for ‘Affected Communities’. In May 2024, rohan was invited by India’s national standards body, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), as an expert on the ‘Research Evaluation Committee’ of the Management Systems Department (MSD-10) Sectional Committee, to evaluate R&D institutional research proposals for grants sanctioning. Given his research focus and advocacy on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), rohan has been nominated from India to serve on the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Technical Committee ISO/PC 343 on SDG Management

Experience

1. Member, Global Advisory Council

   Cyberpeace Foundation

   Feb 2026 — Present

Education

• St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata

  Bachelor's degree, Sociology

  2006 — 2009

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences

  Master's degree, Gender and Development Studies

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Leadership
• Research
• Microsoft Office