Rishi Bhattacharya

Rishi founded Impact & Influence (I&I), a communications firm in 2020, determined to deploy all he had learned during his career in communications and as a journalist to drive positive impact. 

With 30 years of communications experience, he was a senior executive for two international communications agencies for a total of 15 years, from providing C-suite advisory to running complex programmes for some of the world’s largest companies. 

He has advised CEOs through phases of growth and fundraising rounds, as well as through crises. He has worked across sectors from financial services, to energy, and from technology to nature. 

He was the former global head of energy at Edelman and the co-head of corporate and capital markets at Instinctif Partners. He was a broadcast political journalist during Tony Blair's premiership.