Hari DK (LinkedIn →) incorporated Solvesustain in 2021 as Sustainability Problem Solver (OPC) Pvt. Ltd., a one-person R&D studio to collaboratively research, design and develop solutions and models that enable and accelerate sustainable development outcomes.
An engineer by training, Hari is a generalist problem-solver at heart, with 15+ years of rich and varied experience in sustainability and social impact. He has worked on challenges across clean energy, energy access, water use in agriculture & industry, food-security and community-based sustainability transitions, circular economy and more. He is passionate about science & technology for social benefit, and keenly interested in innovation, human-centred design and social entrepreneurship.
Hari has worked on ground-breaking projects recognized globally for innovation and impact, including twice by National Instruments, Intersolar AWARD 2016, the UNFCCC’s Momentum for Change Award 2017, the German Energy Agency’s Start-up Energy Transition Award 2017, the Elsevier Renewable Energy Challenge 2017, the UN DESA 2017 US$1 million Energy Grant, and more.
Hari cofounded FluxGen, a sustainable technologies company in Bangalore, and later worked with MicroEnergy International (Germany) on the concept of swarm electrification, and further headed research & product development at Solshare, an international joint-venture social enterprise creating clean energy marketplaces in rural off-grid areas of Bangladesh. Following this, he researched systems issues at Public Affairs Centre, a 25-year old nonprofit think tank focused on the SDGs in the Indian context.
If you would like the (much) longer story of how Hari became a “sustainability problem-solver”, read on here 🙂