Amita Chaudhury

Group Head of Sustainability, AIA

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Bio

Amita Chaudhury is the Group Head of Sustainability at AIA, and a Board member of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI).

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At AIA, Amita spearheads the integration of sustainability into business strategy, operations and culture for Asia’s largest health and life insurer. In three years, she has led a “whole organization effort", influencing the development of ESG plans across AIA’s 18 markets and building a culture of sustainability among 25,000 employees through initiatives such as the flagship multi-year eco-office movement, AIA CAN. In 2023, Amita led AIA to become the first pan-Asian insurer to receive validation for their near-term emissions reduction targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and published their first Climate Transition Plan, significant step forward in the company's commitment to net-zero emissions by 2025.

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Prior to AIA, Amita spent over a decade at Unilever to embed sustainable practices across its portfolio of leading consumer brands as Head of Sustainable Business for Southeast Asia and Australia and Global Diversity & Inclusion Director.

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She was seconded from Unilever to the United Nations Global Compact, New York as a senior advisor on sustainability learning from 2019 to 2020. In 2018, Amita was recognized by the World Business Council of Sustainable Development as a “Leading Women in Sustainability”.