Impact Futures strengthens Middle East presence with appointment of Amruta Kshemkalyani
The built environment in the Middle East is evolving into a new reality, with organisations placing greater focus on how corporate ambition is translated into project delivery. Too often, these efforts are developed separately, with limited clarity for teams on the ground to deliver outcomes aligned with organisational intent. This creates gaps between ambition and what is realised in practice. Impact Futures is addressing this by acting as a translator, with the appointment of Amruta Kshemkalyani as Sustainability Leader to support clients in the region.
Based in Dubai, Amruta will work closely with clients at the early stages of visioning, planning and decision-making. With experience across both Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD), her focus will be on improving how sustainability is carried through into projects. Amruta will also ensure efforts are directed where they deliver the greatest impact and long-term value for the clients.
“Clients are not short on ambition nor activity. In recent conversations with clients, the message was clear: help us align financial and business performance to our sustainability ambition and project delivery. This shows they are investing time and resources into sustainability, but without a clear line between business strategy and application, that value can be diluted,” says Impact Futures Global Lead Paul Edwards.
“The capability to operate across both ESG and ESD is rare and Amruta brings that. She joins us with a strong understanding of how sustainability commitments are carried through in practice and where they often lose momentum.”
Amruta brings over 16 years in environmental and social sustainability. Her background spans across both corporate sustainability and the built environment in the Middle East. Her background includes supporting organisations establish sustainability functions, as well as contributing to green building projects across a variety of development types, with 35 achieving LEED, Estidama or WELL certification.
Amruta’s involvement across the full project lifecycle has given her a clear view of how sustainability translates into real -world settings. Alongside this, her work in climate education and stakeholder engagement has shaped her approach to sustainability as something that needs to be understood and embedded across teams, rather than managed in isolation.
“I have seen organisations that have made genuine progress, and others where sustainability has remained at a surface level. For some, ESG is still approached as a reporting exercise. The difference is rarely intent,” Amruta says.
“In many cases, there is a strong push to demonstrate progress externally but less attention on how that is sustained internally over time. That is where the real work sits. I am looking forward to supporting clients at Impact Futures to transition to a value-add approach to sustainability and delivering resilient outcomes shaping the future.”
Impact Futures partners with clients, industry leaders and stakeholders across healthcare, transit, residential, mixed-use, education, hospitality, transport, innovation precincts, adaptive re-use projects and other organisation portfolios. Amruta’s appointment strengthens this approach in the Middle East, supporting closer engagement with clients as the market continues to develop.
Impact Futures is part of the 7C Network.