Wilma Rodrigues

Wilma Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Saahas Zero Waste (SZW), a social enterprise committed to implementing holistic zero-waste solutions across India. Wilma moved to Bangalore from Mumbai in 1995. She is a former journalist with the Times of India group and Business World Magazine. India got its first set of Municipal Solid Waste rules in 2000, and this was the trigger for Wilma to step into the waste management sector so as to support the implementation of the rules. She first set up NGO Saahas in 2001 and then a business model SZW in 2013.