Kaushik Sridhar

Kaushik is a tertiary qualified Sustainability consultant with 4 years’ professional and academic experience in the areas of strategy, sustainability, coaching, business development and research, across multiple industries. His professional experience in sustainability consulting revolves around environmental reporting, strategic sustainability, NGER assurance, and integrating management accounting with sustainability. 

In November 2011, Kaushik completed and submitted his PhD for examination. His doctoral thesis, done at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, is entitled ‘Is the Triple Bottom Line reporting framework flawed or can it be developed to a higher state?’ During the research, he interviewed senior executives of sustainability in forty global organizations, in Australia, Europe, USA and Canada, as part of his data collection process. During the 2.5 years of his doctoral study, he has published 18 academic papers (around sustainability, CSR, carbon trading etc.) in international peer-reviewed journals, and also presented at academic conferences in Auckland, Bangkok and Paris. Kaushik also holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He did a Masters’ thesis on environmental reporting in Australia, which eventually got published in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review journal. 

Kaushik has tutored the MBA unit “Accounting for Management” at MGSM for over 2 years, and given guest lectures at MGSM for the MBA unit “Managing Sustainable Organisations.” His passion and appreciation of sustainability and its subject matter has been an important driver behind his education and career choices to date. At Net Balance, Kaushik brings this passion and desire with him, and hopes to apply his academic understanding and background of sustainability issues into practice. 

Outside of consulting, Kaushik spends his time going to concerts, musicals, art gallery viewings, and sporting events. At the age of 13, he was sent on a sports scholarship to pursue a career in professional tennis at the John Newcombe Tennis Academy in Texas, USA.  Having played tennis all over the world for over 13 years and achieved a world ranking, he always has time to play a game of tennis socially. Being an avid lover of music, Kaushik has recently started to play the guitar, which is an excellent source of relaxation.