Neha Khanna is an Associate Director at Climate Policy Initiative, based in Delhi, India. At CPI, she leads the green and sustainable finance practice.

Neha is a green and sustainable finance expert with nearly 15 years of financial advisory and risk consulting professional experience, working with multinational corporations, banks, DFIs, foundations, and multilaterals in India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania, and the United States. Neha’s expertise includes financial risk management, strategy consulting, development consulting, financial inclusion, and climate-related financial risk, with a focus on banking, capital markets, and insurance.

Her research areas and interests are in climate finance, green finance, sustainable finance, financial inclusion, and gender-lens investing. She delivers lectures and trainings on green finance and climate-related financial risks and opportunities to private and public financial sector experts. Neha is also a Sustainability Climate Risk (SCR) Task Force member with the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), a steering committee member of the Greening of Finance by Women (GroW) Network, and a member of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Expert Advisory Group (EAG) for Financial Institutions Net-Zero (FINZ) Standard.

Neha is an engineering graduate of Jaypee University of Information Technology and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.