Veera Swaminathan

Chief Executive Officer

Sustainable Living Lab

Veera is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Living Lab, a sustainability consulting firm with operations in Singapore, Indonesia, India and the US. He is concurrently the Chief Executive Officer of edm8ker, an edtech firm which operates in the domain of teacher professional development. He has more than a decade of professional experience in the domains of sustainability, foresight, corporate innovation, edtech, and digital skilling.

He also co-founded a community based initiative called Repair Kopitiam to tackle the buy-and-throw-away culture in Singapore. He volunteers as the Co-Chair of the Climate Action SG Alliance and as a Youth Community Lead with the Somerset Belt Taskforce.

Veera was awarded the Joseph Jaworski Next-Gen Foresight Asia Special Award by the UK-based School of International Futures in 2018 and the NUS Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2019. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Intellectual Property Management.