Sunil KA
Associate Director, CRISIL
Sunil KA

Mr. Sunil holds Bachelor in Civil Engineering & Post Graduate Diploma (Finance) with a total of more than 10 years experience in Hydropower sector.

Specific to Hydro Power, his work area includes Transaction Advisory, Corporate Planning & Strategy, Business Development, Project Appraisal, Project Development, Project Management and Policy. He has spent 6 years in Project Planning and Contract Management with India’s largest Hydro Power Generation Company, NHPC Ltd. During this period he worked on Project Monitoring, Project Management, Contract Management, Feasibility Studies and Due Diligence.

Prior to his current assignment with CRISIL he has worked with LANCO Group, one of India largest private sectors power developers for over 3 years in Opportunity Identification, Bid Strategy, Financial and Commercial Planning for Hydro Power Projects. He has strong domain expertise in the end to end value chain of hydro power sector. As part of his various assignments, Sunil has travelled to South East Asia including LAOS PDR and South East Europe. He had done due diligence of some major green field hydro projects in the regions. Sunil has authored articles on his experiences and policies of hydro power sector in various publications.

Specific to small hydro, Sunil has experience of project management in an asset portfolio of 4 small hydro projects of 5 MW each. Beside he has been associated with due diligence and feasibility studies for a good number of small hydro projects in the state of Himachal, Uttarakhand and Karnataka. He has been advisor in some of the PE investments made in the sector.