Bose Varghese of Infosys joins Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas to head the firm’s ESG practice

Bose K Varghese, former head of green initiative at Infosys Ltd has joined law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as senior director to head the firm’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) advisory. He will be based out in the firm’s Mumbai office.

An alumnus of the University of Houston from the 1997 batch in Environmental Engineering and the University of Calicut from the 1990 batch in Chemical Engineering, Varghese was managing corporate sustainability/ESG and climate change programs for Infosys Ltd.

At Infosys, he managed all corporate ESG initiatives, investments, and disclosures for the company. His key achievements at Infosys are winning the coveted UN Global Climate Action Award in 2019 and making Infosys Carbon Neutral in fiscal 2020 across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.


Prior to this, he had founded an advisory firm Vie2Sustain Consulting LLP that worked in the areas of sustainability, environment, climate change and clean tech. Varghese had also worked with Ernst & Young (EY) between 2009 to 2012 and prior to that was working in the US.

“I am delighted to have Bose Varghese join us to lead our ESG practice. His presence will strengthen our offerings and further enhance our capabilities to support our clients,” said Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. “We intend to provide a broad range of advisory services in this space and his addition will add much broader capabilities.”

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is the country’s largest full-service firm with 160 partners and 1000 lawyers. The mumbai-headquartered firm has offices in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, GIFT City and also in Singapore.