Ms Neha Kumar heads the South Asia Programme for the global not-for-profit Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and is based in Delhi. She drives policy practice strategy and partner programmes to scale up the green bonds market and sustainable financial ecosystem. Her current focus areas include the role of central banks transition risks and finance climate-resilient investments in agriculture and state and city-level action on green financing. She has served as a core member of the Working Group on Taxonomy Development which the Ministry of Finance GoI has set up under the Sustainable Finance Task Force.
