Dr Girija K Bharat, is the Founder Director of Mu Gamma Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon. She is an international expert with 30 years of experience in water quality and conducts research and capacity building activities in India on Water Resource Management, Water Supply and Sanitation, Chemical Pollution Control (Persistent Organic Chemicals), and Environmental Management.

She started her career as a Scientist in CSIR-CIMFR, and was a Presidential Scholar at George Mason University, USA. She is a Ph.D. in Chemistry from LIT, Nagpur, and an alumnus of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, BITS (Pilani), George Mason University, USA. She is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS); Iota-Sigma-Pi – an Honor Society for Women in Chemistry in the US. She was also the recipient of IIM Bangalore (NSRCEL)-Goldman Sachs 10 K Women Entrepreneurs Programme, 2021.

She has 128 national and international publications, including the Global Sustainable Development Report, 2015 and 16. She has co-authored the National Policy Framework of India on Safe Reuse of Wastewater. She is a Research Council Member of CSIR-NEERI and a Technical Expert of the Managing Urbanization vertical of NITI Aayog, Govt of India.

She is the recipient of several national and international awards including the Glory of India 2021, Women Transforming India Award by NITI Aayog 2021, Global Environment Award 2020, Save The Environment Award 2021, Aqua Excellence Award 2020, Exceptional Women of Excellence Award of Women Economic Forum in 2019.