Ajay Mittal in his current role is a Director, India and South Asia (Climate Change Programs) for Earth Day Network, Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in nearly 192 countries to build environmental democracy.
He was trained to be a Climate Reality Leader at Brisbane, Australia in June,2019 and was recently recognised as one of the EE 30 Under 30 leaders by North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). The award recognises young leaders using environmental education to build sustainable communities.
Prior to joining Earth Day Network he was working as a consultant and voluntarily leading Kolkata Clean Air Movement which is citizen and community initiative with a vision to make Kolkata one of the most liveable and climate friendly cities in the world. In a very short span it has established into a network of 50+ Organisations, Experts, Academicians, scientists, lawyers, doctors and 1000s of citizens joining the movement.
Kolkata Clean Air started as a campaign has slowly taken shape into being a fast growing organisation by the name of Active Citizen For Sustainability (ACTS) that works towards building a model for citizen state partnership towards building a sustainable city. Ajay still volunteers his time as Co-founder and board member at ACTS.

He is also on board of several city based NGOs that includes Project Life Force, HIVE India, Y-East , SwitchON to name a few. He is passionate about scaling social solutions using technology, innovations and simplicity.