Profiles

Devni Acharya leads Arup’s Sustainability Strategy & Insights work in Southeast Asia. She has wide-ranging experience advising investors, developers and governments on how they can benefit from sustainable development by adopting low carbon, resilient and circular economy approaches. Most recently, she led the Clean Growth Handbook Malaysia commissioned by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department for Business and Trade.

She is actively involved in research to drive sustainable innovation, and has collaborated with the likes of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on circular economy and the Singapore University of Technology and Design on low-carbon buildings. She started her career in the UK, then moved to Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving to Malaysia where she has been based since March 2022.