Neha Kumar Email & Phone Number

I head the South Asia Programme for Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and am based in New Delhi. I drive policy, strategy and partner programmes in the country to scale up the green bonds market and sustainable financial ecosystem. Avidly interested in the political economy of growth and flow of capital within and across countries to green projects, my work involves engaging and bringing together market actors, expert institutions and governments to devise solutions for low cost financing through thematic bonds. My current areas of focus include making sustainable finance widely accessible in clean energy, climate resilient agriculture, and unlocking state and city level action for green financing. Have been contributing to public policy and industry action in India on non financial risks, sustainability and responsible financing for the last nineteen years. My projects at GIZ before joining CBI led to ESG disclosures regulation by the Indian market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India; development of financial sector led Responsible Financing Guidelines, impactful Indo-German public-private alliances on mainstreaming sustainability practices in large and small businesses.