Partner, Dalberg Advisors
Jagjeet Sareen is a Partner based in New Delhi and co-leads the global climate practice at Dalberg. He helps guide clients on adapting to a progressive, future ready climate regulatory framework. He is helping public and private sector clients on climate change adaptation,
climate finance, and decarbonization issues.
In a career of close to two decades, his focus has been on green infrastructure, clean energy, investment, and climate finance, working across organizations such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Green Climate Fund, the United Nations Climate Change
Secretariat, Ernst & Young, and TERI. He specializes in financing analyses in climate space. He has worked with public and private players to unlock financing sources and instruments. In his experience, Jagjeet has also worked closely with senior officials and bureaucrats across the center and state governments. He is the Climate Area Chair at the Council for International Economic Understanding (CIEU).
Prior to Dalberg, Jagjeet was a Senior Policy Officer in Climate Change Global Practice at the World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until July 2022, he served as the Assistant Director-General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). On secondment from the World Bank Group, Jagjeet has helped build ISA from a political idea to a well-recognized multilateral organization with more than 100 member countries. He has mobilized 100 million dollars from member countries and global foundations to implement solar energy projects across developing countries. At the World Bank, Jagjeet helped negotiate Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), a ten-billion-dollar fund, from a sunset clause to its recapitalization, successfully repositioning it in global climate negotiations. At the Green Climate Fund (GCF), he led the design of crucial strategy and operational policies for the Fund, particularly its business model
framework.
He was pivotal in conceptualizing and designing the GCF and negotiating the associated geopolitical processes. He also facilitated UNFCCC Climate Finance negotiations as a staff of the UNFCCC secretariat.
Jagjeet has a Masters degree in Sustainability Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management and a BSc in Agricultural Economics from Punjab Agriculture University in India.
