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Ms. Neha Kumar
Neha Kumar has joined Climate Bonds as India Programme Manager and will be
based in Delhi. Neha will drive policy and partner programmes in the country to
scale up the green bonds market and take on active advocacy with the media,
issuers and investors and the government. She will also contribute to business
development for Climate Bonds. She joined us on 1 July 2017.
Neha has over fourteen years of experience working on public policy and
industry action in India on sustainability and responsible financing. In her
stint at GIZ India (German Development Agency) before she joined us, she
steered projects that led to a regulation on ESG disclosures by the Indian
market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India; and the development
of financial sector led Responsible Financing Guidelines. She was also
responsible for conceptualising and over-seeing successful Indo-German
public-private alliances, EU co-financing grants and building multi-stakeholder
alliances on mainstreaming sustainability practices in large and small
businesses. Prior to that, she consulted national and international businesses
on environmental and political risks in extractive and infrastructure sectors
with operations and investments spread across India.
She has served on national and international standard setting bodies
like Bureau of Indian Standards and Global Reporting Initiative where she
vice-chaired its Stakeholder Council. She speaks frequently on sustainability,
responsible financing, reporting and disclosures, and has edited and published
journals and articles on these topics. Currently, she is part of a core group
of policy advisors and practitioners on future of jobs and green economy hosted
by Frederich Ebert Stiftung, India and an active alumna of Young Global Leaders
chosen by the Bucerius-Zeit Foundation of Germany.
She holds Masters and M.Phil in International Politics and Diplomacy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.