Per has 20 years of experience in policy making and multilateral partnerships, having worked as a civil servant in Sweden, the UN and the EU on issues including sustainability and innovation, industry policies, as well as climate and environmental affairs.

Within LeadIT, Per heads the Secretariat, coordinating its work to ensure LeadIT is reaching the objectives set and agreed upon by its Board and its Members. Per also initiates and develops partnerships and oversees LeadIT’s strategic direction.

Felipe leads the Secretariat’s efforts to suppport two parallel industry transition partnerships between the governments of India-Sweden and Brazil-UK. He brings his expertise in policy development and identifying policy implementation issues.

Arati is the Secretariat Lead for the pillar of our work that encompasses technology co-development between businesses. She works to bring together different actors within industry to find shared solutions to drive decarbonization and net zero goals.

Arati offers extensive experience working with businesses and forging partnerships in the Nordics and India from previous roles with Government, non-profits and Business Councils.

Mahendra is the lead for our global policy work, acting as a strategic bridge between governments, LeadIT members, and partners. He supports industry transition efforts by connecting them to international policy and the financial ecosystem and helping ensure that key challenges are addressed, collaborations are explored, and open dialogue is fostered.

He brings more than a decade of experience in climate and trade-related policy, multilateral diplomacy, and international law.

Aaron is the Policy Lead within the LeadIT Secretariat. Aaron is a policy and finance expert with twenty years of experience working on climate and sustainability transitions and engaging with private and public actors.

Within LeadIT, Aaron works together with LeadIT Members from government and industry on policy issues for supporting industrial transitions globally. 

Yani works as the program manager at the LeadIT Secretariat. In addition to coordinating across the initiative to help meet the program objectives, she works to support the strategic program development to boost coherence, effectiveness, and impact. Her work cuts across all three strategic pillars of LeadIT and she actively engages with partners and members to ensure successful and impactful execution of program activities.

Perez is an Analyst within the LeadIT Secretariat. He conducts analysis on the pace and scope of heavy industry transition and works to enhance and develop our Green Steel Tacker and Green Cement Technology trackers. Perez also works on the India-Sweden Industry Transition Partnership.

Jane leads the Secretariat’s global communications efforts. Her role is to drive impact for the work of LeadIT through communications plans, providing strategic advice to help maximize the global influence.

Within the LeadIT Secretariat, Jane is responsible for planning and developing communications activities on industry transition in collaboration with LeadIT members and partners.