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Dr. Kishore Ravuri

Head, Strategy
Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad

About

Kishore Ravuri is one of the leading sustainability practitioners in Malaysia and is currently the Head of Strategy and an extended management team member for Dutch Lady Milk Industries (DLMI) Berhad. In his current role, he works with the Managing Director to plan strategic interventions to elevate Board and Management objectives, deliberations and outcomes. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Sustainability, responsible for driving ESG integration efforts as well as for devising and operationalising sustainability frameworks, policies, and programmes, while building capacity and reputation of DLMI as a responsible business.

Before DLMI, he was the Chief Impact Officer of first and only home-grown sustainability advisory that is a Benefit Corporation or B-Corp (in Malaysia), IMPACTO Sdn Bhd. Besides consulting and coaching leaders on responsible and inclusive business practices, as a pracademic, he also serves as an Assessor at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Kishore is also the CoFounder and Ambassador of CEO Action Network (CAN) - an informal coalition of leaders from nearly 70 leading corporations of Malaysia committed to inspire definitive action for sustainability leadership. In 2023, he also founded the DEI workstream of CAN, where he advocated the theory of organizational justice as the basis to develop and apply DEI principles and model DEI policies.
Beyond DLMI, KisH worked as the lead for GreenBizReady Sustainable SMEs Adoption Initiative for nearly 3 years, helping raise awareness as well as mentor high potential SMEs in Malaysia on sustainable business principles at Zero Cost. He also sits on the Advisory Council of Sustainability Leadership Kosovo. In his free time, he is busy planning the set-up of an IMPACT Foundation in India, which will be developing bespoke rural community projects enshrining the concepts of democratic education, socio-economic empowerment and financial inclusion.