About us

We help clean economy solutions move from concept to commercial scale through strategy, validation, partnerships, and implementation support. 

Who We Are

Anvarta focuses on accelerating clean economy innovations into real-world markets. We work with businesses, research organisations, and governments to translate emerging solutions into viable strategies, commercial pathways, and measurable impact. Through market insights, capability building, and strategic advisory, we help organisations move from concepts to adoption, creating measurable value while enabling measurable environmental and economic impact. 

Our Vission

To be the leading strategic partner enabling organisations to create transformative impact and unlock sustainable growth in a changing world. 

Our typical products and services

  • A range of courses that aim capacity building of professionals in transition to a circular economy
  • Advisory and consulting services covering concept creation to strategy formulation​, leading to constructing detailed roadmaps for organisations
  • Analytical solutions, including material flow analysis, Life cycle analysis and life cycle costing
  • Support for new initiative integration and operationalization, including change and transformation management

Core values

  • Rethink to create a new vision – Target responsible regeneration and improved value creation
  • Reskill to create readiness – Upskill and cross skill to match the development needs of a new era
  • Recreate to win collectively and together – Collaborate to co-design and co-create
  • Redesign to create value differently – Reach new levels of performance and productivity through new business models
  • Renew relationships to share and create harmony – Contribute to uplift social and environmental standards through regenerative consumption and equitable distribution

Our Mission

To empower organisations with insight, strategy, and capability to transform ideas into scalable solutions that deliver lasting economic and environmental value. 

Our principles

Clean economy

We support the transition to economic systems that create value while reducing environmental impact and enabling long-term impact.

Product stewardship

We promote shared responsibility across the full product life cycle, —encouraging design, production, use, recovery, and regeneration to maximise value

Systems thinking

We approach challenges by understanding the broader systems, connections, and interdependencies 

Collaboration for Impact

We believe meaningful change happens through collaboration between industry, research and markets.

Our approach

Understand

Identify the opportunity, context, and potential value of emerging solutions. 

Assess

Evaluate feasibility, value proposition, and market readiness. 

Design

Develop strategies, business models, and pathways for adoption. 

Enable

Build partnerships, capabilities, and activation 

Grow

Support expansion and long-term market impact

Our specialized expert network

Dr Mayuri Wijayasundara

Founder & principal advisor & CEO

Mayuri is a leading international expert in strategic transformation and enterprise-wide transition, advising organisations and markets to adopt circular and low-carbon economy principles. With over 20 years in this field as a senior industry practitioner, tenured academic, and a consultant, she currently leads Anvarta. Mayuri is a Fellow of CIMA and holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Melbourne. 

 Key advisory roles and board positions 

Lead circular economy specialist: Gopa GmBH (Current) – Lead international expert providing technical advisory for the development of circular economy roadmap for the Philippines (A project implemented by GIZ, UNDP, Expertise France and IFC funded by the EU) 

Ministerial advisory committee member: Recycling Victoria, Victorian Government’s Market Regulator for Circular Economy (2023 – To date) 

Circular economy expert: United Nations Human Settlement Program (2022-2023) 

Executive committee member: Global Product Stewardship Council (2023 – To date) 

Procurement working group member: Planet Ark’s ACE Hub (2023- To date) 

Advisory committee member: Australia and New Zealand Biochar Industry group (ANZBIG) (2022 – To date)​ 

Executive committee member: Victorian Branch of Waste Management Association of Australia – (2018-2022) 

Working group member: National Packaging Targets Implementation Working Group: Australian Packaging Covenant Organization (2021-2022) 

Technical reference panel (circular economy): Sustainable Subdivisions Framework, The Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment, Australia (CASBE) (2020-2022) 

Our team

We help organisations realise their competitive advantage and achieve productivity gains, while demonstrating environmental responsibility.

Gayashan Thilina

Operations Lead

Mohamed Rashard

Partnership Development Specialist

Anjulee Boralessa

Independent Consultant

Viveka Edussooriya

Research Specialist- Sustainability, Circular Economy

Waruni Mampage

Research Specialist | Consultant

Manusha Mihiran

Web Developer

Why Join the Anvarta Community?

You can be an enthusiast who wants to learn more about circular economy, or a seasoned professional bringing a specific kind of expertise to the community. We welcome you to our learning community to be part of it and to enrich it.

Membership gives a range of benefits that are tailored to your needs.

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Anvarta’s webinar series

Discover the circular economy through Anvarta’s webinar series. Explore key concepts and practical approaches to building sustainable systems, available now on YouTube.

While Anvarta Refrains From Accepting Donations To Maintain Strategic Independence, Our Commitment Remains Focused On Advancing Clean Economy Solutions Through Innovation, Validation, Partnerships, And Scalable Implementation Support. We Empower Sustainable Ideas To Move From Concept To Commercial Reality Through Collaborative Strategy And Impact-Driven Execution.