Shabnam Bassi is a Director & Senior Fellow, Sustainable Buildings Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Deputy CEO & Secretary, GRIHA Council. Prior to joining TERI and GRIHA Council, she has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been engaged to implement strategies to overcome barriers related to energy efficiency in buildings sector in the country. She has worked in closed cooperation with the Central, State and Municipal bodies to facilitate the integration of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) and developed a framework to strengthen enforcement and compliance of the same. While working with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Government of India, she was the key person in developing rules and regulation for ECBC implementation and demonstration projects for ECBC compliance. She has worked in close cooperation with various international agencies / experts in developing programmes related to enhancement of government policies for promoting energy efficiency in buildings. She was the lead person for scanning of the developments in the Indian construction sector, particularly those related with building energy/green building (events, projects, policy and regulatory developments).