Dr. Rebecca Reubens is an alumna of NIFT Delhi and NID Ahmedabad in India. She completed her PhD on the links between sustainability, craft and design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She continues to remain engaged with this area through her practice at Rhizome, the sustainability design studio she founded in 2009. Rhizome works in the space of sustainable luxury through its eponymous furniture label, its sustainable jewellery label Baka, and its consultancy projects.

Rebecca has worked with bamboo for over 2 decades, and she is a World Bamboo Ambassador for the World Bamboo Organization. She teaches at design schools across India because she believes in never missing the opportunity to be educated and to educate. She is a published author, and her most recent publication is The Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India for Routledge.

Col Rohit Tyagi joined Rhizome in 2022 as a co-founder, following demonstrated leadership experience of 22+ years in the Indian Army. He is an alumni of Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, where he studied Business Management. He is a highly experienced strategist and communicator, and skilled at adapting swiftly in dynamic environments and resolving bottlenecks to achieve operations continuity and shared objectives. He brings his proven capability in accelerating operations momentum by developing capable teams and fostering cross-functional collaboration to Rhizome’s behind-the-scenes operations.