Kamal Prakash Seth

• Function: Global Palm Oil Lead
• Company: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Kamal is the Global Palm Oil Lead for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) based in Singapore. His expertise lies in providing strategic direction for mainstreaming sustainable palm oil production, trade and consumption and for organisations to take the necessary actions for UN SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production and UN SDG 13 – Climate Action amongst many others. Kamal has been managing global partnerships and programmes with key stakeholders like companies, financial institutions, civil society organisations, sustainability standards and governments to halt deforestation and to improve the livelihood of smallholders connected to commodities like palm oil.

Previously as the Global Deputy Director, Market Transformation and Head of India for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), he supported the formation of I-SPOC – Sustainable Palm Oil Coalition for India and scaled up RSPO’s growth and impact in India, China and Asia Pacific. To engage consumers for sustainable consumption, Kamal led the #KnowYourPalm campaign and built partnerships for Youth for Sustainability (YfS) India Clubs and the YfS India Alliance as a founding and steering committee member. He has also been a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) ‘Expert Review Panel’ and COP26’s Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade – FACT Dialogue Global Multistakeholder Taskforce. He loves to stay updated with the latest developments in the world of market transformation and completed the ‘System Thinking’ programme from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2021.

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