Director, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Dhruba is Sustainable Development and Finance Advisor over 30 years of experience in International Development Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, in areas of Financing Infrastructure and Clean Energy Public Policy and Public-Private Partnerships, Climate Finance, and Energy Transition. His current research interests are in Financing Climate Investments, Greening Industrial Growth, Financing Adaptation/ Resilience and Managing Climate Risk. Dhruba is a visiting faculty at IIM-Calcutta where he teaches in the course on Climate Finance and Economics.
Till recently, Dhruba Purkayastha was the Director at The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions and among the world’s top climate think tanks. Prior to CEEW, Dhruba was the India Director for Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) -an international non-profit institution working at the nexus of Climate and Transition Finance, and related Policy and Regulation. Dhruba has worked Senior Specialist and
Program Manager at the World Bank Group – the World Bank and International Finance Corporation .As the Director of CPI in India, Dhruba had set up and led the US-India Clean Energy Finance Facility (USICEF) and the Center for Sustainable Finance (CSF) in India to mainstream sustainability and sustainable finance in banks and FIs, private corporate sector and academic courses so that future generations are better equipped with underlying concepts of sustainability.
He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Climate Finance Committee at the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and leads the Niti Aayog Working Group on Finance for Net Zero Transition.
Dhruba is an Engineering graduate from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, a postgraduate in Management from IIM-Calcutta and a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in Financing Infrastructure and Clean Energy Projects.
