Mr. Ajay Mathur, director general of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), has been named as one of the energy efficiency "visionaries".  He has been honored for his excellence in the field of saving energy. He will receive the award from the Alliance of countries from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe.

Mr. Mathur will receive the award in Washington in a conference of the Alliance. The Alliance is basically a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders from various parts of the globe. They promote efficient and clean use of energy all across the globe.

Mr. Ajay Mathur is currently a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change. He is also involved in some of the projects that are basically related to energy efficiency.

He has been the prime leaders of the country’s transformation towards energy efficiency.

He has been involved in India's standards and energy conservation labeling program on the equipment and appliances. He has written three books and has produced several reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.