{"id":12058,"date":"2025-01-20T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rc4.nus.edu.sg\/?page_id=12058"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:15:24","slug":"veerappan-swaminathan-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rc4.nus.edu.sg\/current-faculty\/veerappan-swaminathan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Veerappan Swaminathan"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\t<h2>\r\n\t\t\t\tVeerappan Swaminathan\r\n\t\t\t<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rc4.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Veerappan-Swaminathan.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Veerappan SWAMINATHAN&lt;br&gt;\r\n&lt;span class=&quot;title-fellow&quot;&gt;Fellow&lt;\/span&gt;\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"330\" width=\"330\" title=\"Veerappan Swaminathan\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\r\n<h4>\r\n\t\tVeerappan Swaminathan\r\n\t<\/h4>\r\n\t<p>Fellow<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"mailto:s.veera@nus.edu.sg\">s.veera@nus.edu.sg<\/a><\/p>\r\n\t<p>Veera is the CEO of Sustainable Living Lab (SL2), a sustainability and innovation consulting firm with operations in Singapore, Indonesia, India and the US, and co-founder of Repair Kopitiam, a community-based initiative to tackle the buy-and-throw culture in Singapore. 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