Dr. Kiran Dev Pandey Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Train and validate machine learning models to predict credit default risk and fraud.
• Prototype customized cloud-based data architecture to facilitate automation

• Reduced insight generation time by 90% to identify and segment customers, track reach and engagement and visualize trends by instituting an automated end-to-end BI system.
• Expanded analytics team from 3 to 10 members by mentoring analysts and managing an agile process.

World, OO

• Projected the economic benefits and costs of 3 multi-sector projects by forecasting the demand for services resulting in successfully raising $550 million in new financing.
• Designed and implemented system to classify climate expenditures in 10 years of the Malaysian. government’s budget supporting the introduction of carbon-market and carbon taxes in Malaysia.
• Validated and deployed a geospatial model to assess the efficacy of policy actions for reducing flood risks in a dynamic setting; adjusted the algorithms to reduce model runtime by 50%.
• Reviewed effectiveness and efficiency air pollution related tax and fee policies and regulations to mobilize revenues and protect the environment.
• Designed project to provide block grants for community led resilience building investments

• Formulated business model and launched a fintech venture targeting microfinance borrowers.
• Improved accuracy of credit default risk predictions by 20 percent by training and validating an ensemble of machine learning models for a prototype default credit risk scoring system.

• Created a cost-effective distributed data architecture solution to classify and track climate related national expenditures in the Philippines’ $1 billion budget;
• Supervised a 5-person data labeling and quality review team to identify financing gaps and duplication in 100 programs.
• Assessed the impacts of doubling the number of GEF partners on GEF’s effectiveness and efficiency by conducting a stakeholder survey and focus interviews and analyzing a $10 billion portfolio.
• Predicted demand for services of an infrastructure projects leading to $15 million in new financing.
• Evaluated the economic benefits and costs of a $38 million sector transformation project.
• Developed an agile Results-Based system for allocating the initial round of GCF investments of $10 billion. System adopted by GCF Board.

Washington, DC, US

• Awarded Vice Presidential Unit Award for co-managing an $8 million research project consisting of 50 inter-disciplinary teams located in 12 countries on the economics of adapting to climate change.
• Guided research to model the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and agriculture in Bangladesh and to forecast benefits of adaptation catalyzing $325 million in new financing.
• Led design and implementation of a system to classify the World Bank’s $10 billion loan portfolio for climate benefits resulting in its adoption for publicly reporting on World Bank climate engagement.

Washington, DC, US

• Engineered a transparent project allocation system for GEF investments, leading to a successful $3.3 billion in new funding; trained and implemented a multi-stage machine learning model for investment allocation using.
• Guided development of a secure project management information system accessible by internal and external users and to support analytical workloads.

Washington, DC, US

• Developed regression model to predict air pollution exposure in 3200 world cities leading to the creation or expansion of air pollution monitoring networks in dozens of cities.
• Estimated indoor air pollution exposure of women and children using streaming personal monitor data and activity logs leading to several programs to scale up cookstove commercialization.
• Identified factors contributing to the inefficiency of manufacturing enterprises by modeling the production possibility frontier leading to the deregulation of the financial sector in Nepal.

Bse, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Phd, Economics - Environment And Natural Resource Economics, Public Finance

Ma, Economics - Econometrics

Ms, Engineering Sciences -- Resource Systems And Policy Design