Neha Kumar

Neha Kumar is the Head, South Asia, Climate Bonds Initiative and is based in Delhi. She steers policy, strategy and partnerships on climate risks and sustainable financial ecosystem in the region. Her efforts are targeted at building policy mechanisms, market infrastructure and capacities needed to accelerate financing for green, just and resilient transition. Her current areas of focus include transition and resilence finance, the role of financial policy and regulation, and DFIs and MDBs. Avidly interested in the political economy of flow of sustainable finance, she has been working on the topics of equity and climate justice. She has over twenty two years of experience in responsible financing, environmental and socio-political risks, serves on several policy and regulatory committees on climate finance and taxonomy. She is trained in science, international environmental negotiations and politics.