Michele Lemmens

Michele Lemmens is the APAC Head of Business Sustainability and CTO for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). In this role she is responsible for championing, shaping and bringing to life new sustainability initiatives with stakeholders. She facilitates access to the depth and breadth of TCS capabilities, solutions, Research & Innovation and COIN and partners to deliver measurable economic, social, environmental outcomes that have industry relevance and value.She was earlier responsible for establishing the Regional ASEAN Hub for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on secondment and worked across stakeholder groups in the region as an advocate for sustainability, building capability and engaging leaders in ESG dialogues to enable better decisions, based on information that matters.She has extensive experience in mature and emerging markets in consulting, sustainability, digital transformation, innovation, financial services, alternate proteins and not for profit. She has successfully led the the formulation of new business models and propositions often driven through new market entry, M&A, JVs, start-ups and strategic alliances. Her work crosses multiple industries and spans APAC, ASEAN, Middle East and UK geographies.She advises, co-chairs and contributes on ESG related change with several businesses, communities and academic institutions and speaks regularly at internal and external forums about Sustainability, Innovation, Leadership Start-ups and Diversity.She is passionate about the opportunities for businesses to embrace more sustainable business models by harnessing the power of innovation and digital in the way they operate, and champion change, for better triple bottom line outcomes.