Neha Kumar is the Head, South Asia Programme, Climate Bonds Initiative and is based in Delhi. She drives policy, strategy and partner programmes to scale up the green bonds market and sustainable financial ecosystem. She has also served on the Ministry of Finance Working Group on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy development, and international ESG standard setting bodies. Her efforts are targeted at building policy mechanisms and market infrastructure needed to accelerate financing for green, just and resilient transition, creating capacities across sovereign, sub sovereign, financial and non-financial entities,  development finance institutions and regulators through research and dialogues on climate risks and green finance. Avidly interested in the political economy of flow of sustainable finance, she has been working on the topics of equity and climate justice. She has nearly two decades of experience in responsible financing, environmental and political risks, and has served on national and international ESG and sustainable finance standard setting bodies. She is trained in science, international environmental negotiations and politics and has an M.Phil from Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is also a Senior Research Associate with the ODI.