Shrashtant Patara is an architect by training. He has been with the Development Alternatives Group since 1988, providing research expertise, management capability and strategic direction to teams working in the areas of Entrepreneurship Support Systems, Habitat, Renewable Energy and Waste-to-Wealth initiatives. His current work is focussed on systems change, social innovation and entrepreneurship, resulting in the co-creation of multi-stakeholder based service delivery models that promote sustainability through local economic development, regeneration of the environment and greater social equity. Patara is a Fellow of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Program on Social Innovation and has completed a program on Leadership for System Change conducted by Harvard Kennedy School in conjunction with the Schwab Foundation. Patara has been instrumental in the establishment of several social businesses within the DA Group and currently leads the team that is incubating “TARAurja”, a renewable energy based micro-utility business and the Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation.