SENIOR FELLOWS

DR DHRUBA PURKAYASTHA

Dr Dhruba Purkayastha

Dhruba is Sustainable Development and Climate Finance Expert over 30 years of experience in International Development, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, Research and Public Policy. He has worked with leading international and Indian non-profits/think tanks and multilateral development banks in climate, energy transition and sustainability such as Climate Policy Initiative, CEEW and with The World Bank Group. Dhruba has been leading various Sustainable, Climate and Transition Finance initiatives in India for Ministry of Finance, Niti Aayog and International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).

Dhruba currently works as an Adviser to Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago in India, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)- Energy and Climate, Climate Finance Expert for the Standing Committee on Finance at UN Climate/UNFCCC, He is also a Senior Fellow with the Industrial Transition Accelerator, Mission Possible Partnership, and a Visiting Professor in Practice with Grantham Institute at London School of Economics and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Dhruba also mentors start up initiatives such as Climate and Sustainability Initiative – a research and advisory institution on Climate Policy and Finance, Endecarb AI- a Climate Risk AI Platform and Infrablocks Capital Energy Transition Fund as AIF in India.

Dhruba an Engineer and MBA from IIMC Cal and has PhD from IIT Delhi.