Bipasha Chatterjee

Bipasha is the Global Co Head of Partnerships Team at Climate Bonds Initiative. She is responsible for creating collaborations between Climate Bonds and climate finance stakeholders. Her role is to empower financial institutions and corporates with Climate Bonds’ tools and investment knowledge needed for rapid transition to net zero and for creating resilient investment portfolios. She also builds partnerships with organizations that are enabling government policies to help scale up capital towards climate aligned activities. Bipasha creates the bridges between climate finance stakeholders and Climate Bonds’ content teams such as Standards, Taxonomy, and Policy as well as the Markets Intelligence and Capacity Building teams.

Bipasha is trained as an environmental economist with over two decades of experience in the climate sector in leading large consortium projects, engaging with the public and private sector, and in academic discourse. After completing her post graduate education from the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics, she began her career with the FAO/United Nations in Rome and subsequently worked with KPMG Consulting and Ricardo Energy and Environment (formerly known as AEA) in the UK. After moving to the US, she became an adjunct professor teaching Environmental Economics at Hunter College, City University of New York. In addition, she has experience in executive training on environmental policy and regulation at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.

Bipasha has been on the Board of environmental non-profits in the US such as Energy Vision and the RNG Coalition of North America. She has also completed a certificate course in public finance from Harvard Kennedy School.

After living in the UK for nearly 15 years, Bipasha moved to the US in 2009 and has since then enjoyed a New York life with her twin children and husband.