Global South Solutions partners with governments, institutions, startups, international organizations, and the private sector to advance sustainable development and green growth across the Global South. We co-create strategic solutions rooted in a clear-eyed understanding of local challenges, opportunities, and political economy.
We don’t just advise - we support our partners end-to-end, from conceptualization to execution, moving beyond reports to real implementation.
By combining local expertise with global insight, we help shape a future that is driven by shared learning, impactful partnerships, and meaningful progress - grounded in local realities and dedicated to amplifying the voice of the Global South
Our mission is to cultivate a dynamic ecosystem for South-South collaboration, driving knowledge exchanges, sustainable development and green growth. With our team's direct experience in successful policy design and real world implementation, we strive to deliver implementable, scalable, and impactful policy and advisory solutions for a green and equitable future, ensuring they are contextually relevant to each country's unique needs.
We harness technology, including AI, to support smarter decision-making by providing targeted insights, making the sharing of best practices easier, and helping identify high-impact opportunities. Our distinctive approach involves piloting and scaling innovative solutions, supporting real-world implementation, and enabling the transfer of proven development models across the Global South.
We advise and partner on sustainable development and green growth, offering tailored strategic support across business strategy, innovative policy design, global engagement, institutional strengthening, and implementation planning. Our approach combines deep contextual insight with actionable solutions to help clients lead with impact.
A dynamic digital platform, SKIM will foster collaboration, share best practices, and offer AI-driven insights and investment opportunities across the Global South
LEAN will strive to empower global stakeholders to access and leverage deep local knowledge from grassroots experts. By connecting on-the-ground insights with stakeholders worldwide, LEAN facilitates the development of informed, context-driven solutions through a flexible freelance workforce firmly rooted in real-world realities.
Building capacity for policymakers, practitioners and emerging leaders from across government, corporates and startups in the global south with the ultimate aim of empowering them to drive and sustain impactful reforms and interventions
Uniting Global South countries and enterprises to amplify their priorities through thought leadership, impactful policy dialogues, and active participation on global platforms. Our aim is to ensure that the voices of the Global South are not just heard, but are amplified with influence, and their interests championed worldwide.
We will establish a Global Partnership Board open to diverse stakeholders, including a Corporate Partnership Board for private sector partners.
No dedicated agency today fully centres the ambitions and needs of the Global South. We exist to fill that gap—created by the South, working for the South.
We go beyond policy advice to offer end-to-end support—from project design and financing to capacity building and global advocacy also guiding implementation through scalable pilots. A fullspectrum partner rather than a partial one.
We act as a collaborative platform, connecting and amplifying existing institutions. Our goal is to enable identify and build contextually replicable models based on emerging best practices.
We use AI-driven technology to enable targeted policies and tailored interventions, connecting stakeholders and bringing global best practices together to optimize results and efficiency.
Building and leveraging dynamic network of on-ground experts, matched to projects based on local context and subject expertise. This ensures grounded, context-aware solutions with real implementation strength.
Siddharth’s expertise lies at the intersection of policy, technology and green development. He previously worked with the Indian Government, first at NITI Aayog and then with the G20 Secretariat, advising the NITI CEO and the G20 Sherpa of India. He later worked at Google, setting up a team to accelerate AI adoption efforts across the global south, while also leading public policy for climate, energy, sustainability and GIS. At Google, he also co-conceptualized an air quality solution which has been deployed in 100+ cities across India and Brazil. An Electrical Engineer from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Siddharth holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Climate Fellow at Yale University, a Chevening Science and Innovation Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Salzburg Global Fellow. He has also worked with KPMG in the past. He is a mountaineer and a public speaker.
Anukriti is an urban development professional, public policy specialist and an architect. She has previously worked with multiple tiers of governance in India- she has worked as the urban planning expert for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, as an urban planning and development specialist to the Urban Development Department in Uttar Pradesh and also advised multiple state and union territories on growth of small & medium sized-towns, climate change adaptation & mitigation, building & financing nature based solutions, municipal capacities & finance and affordable housing. She later worked with the World Bank & RMI on building ecosystems for climate resilient & low carbon housing. Anukriti holds a Masters in Sustainable Architecture from CEPT University and another Masters in City Design and Social Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.