Mahua has almost 20 years of professional experience in the areas of climate change, green finance, renewable energy and carbon markets.
She currently works part-time for the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), leading CPI’s Asian operations while also supporting high-level strategic planning and further build-up of the organization globally. She also teaches “Sustainable Finance” at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in an executive education program that she co-founded.
For the last few years, Mahua was the Assistant Director-General of 29-country intergovernmental agency the Global Green Growth Institute, Seoul, where she established an investment division that worked across 16 countries and mobilized USD 500 million of financing commitments for 10 investment projects and funds. She was previously managing a $50 million carbon credit investment fund investing in energy efficiency lighting to low income households – a scheme that later became the prototype for a large-scale replacement program in India. She has held roles in the World Bank, Washington DC and is one of the early pioneers of the carbon market.
Mahua holds a Masters’ degree from Yale University. She often writes in international and Indian newspapers and is listed under 100 most mindful women in India.
