Umang Prabhakar Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Helping finance the transformation of global food and land use systems towards becoming more equitable, productive, and regenerative.

New York, New York, United States

New Leaf Climate partners are a nature-first asset manager investing in businesses built around nature-based solutions (NbS) that sequester carbon and provide co-benefits of increased income, biodiversity, and community resilience. Led a graduate team studying the US public financing market for nature based solutions and natural capital assets. Assessed landscape of current policy incentives for nature-based solutions in the IRA and BIL. Evaluated domestic development finance structures like Green Banks and CDFIs for their potential to act as intermediaries for de-risking private investment into nature based solutions

Mumbai, London

Helped the Chief Digital Office (CDO) of UNDP build ecosystems around GovTech and digital public infrastructure (DPI) in the global south for improved public services delivery.

Mumbai, Delhi

I advise organizations that cater to underserved markets and population segments, and address key problems of the 21st century through market-based approaches, public policy, and philanthropy. Focus on key civilization systems, including food (land and oceans), energy (clean and renewable), and education and employment. Clients I have worked with and advised include Oceans Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), Omnivore Ventures, Omidyar Network (India and global), Central Square Foundation, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropy Examples of my work include designing an investment platform to drive private capital into climate and ocean projects, policy support for financing edtech adoption in public schools in India, building a communications strategy for the social impact divison of an American strategy consulting firm, and authoring a landscape report on the future of Indian food and agriculture for one of India's leading VCs

- Led consulting engagements with private agribusinesses across Nigeria, Tanzania, and Indonesia in rice, tea, and palm oil value chains to help them develop service models that equitably incorporate smallholder farmers into their supply chains and improve the performance of their operations. - Supported in the strategy refresh of internal business unit globally that included mapping our core competencies and value proposition, refining our service offering, and assessing the landscape and profile of potential customers

Advised and collaborated with senior leadership at the world's leading private, public, and civil society institutions that included national and state governments in Asia and Africa, multilaterals and bilaterals like IFC, ADB, USAID, and philanthropies such as CIFF and the Gates Foundation. Worked on complex multi-stakeholder projects to bring innovative services to underserved consumers in sectors like clean energy, agriculture, education, and skilling and employment.

Department Of Sociology

I co-authored a paper on women-centred deliberative democracy and the effects of self help groups in rural India with Dr. Paromita Sanyal from Cornell University and Dr. Vijendra Rao from the World Bank. Primary responsibilities included coding of 255 village council (Gram Sabhas) transcripts from across 4 states in south India, analysing linkages between institutional affiliation of women and their quality of civic participation, and writing up findings under a broader investigation into self-help groups, women's empowerment and participative democracy in the subcontinent.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Energy, Environment

Concentration in energy and environment, and a specialization in data analytics. Courses include Sustainable Finance, Energy Systems.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Economy

Double degree MPA at Columbia and LSE with a concentration in energy and data analytics

B.A., Sociology, Business, Networks And Institutions

Activities and Societies: Cornell Squash Club, Cornell Chronicle, Cornell International Affairs SocietyMinor in Law and Society

Igcse, Ib Diploma