
Dr Dhruba-Purkayastha
India Director
Climate Policy Initiative
Dhruba is the India Director for Climate Policy Initiative, a
global non-profit research and advisory institution,
working on Sustainable/Green/Climate finance. Earlier
Dhruba worked with International Finance Corporation
(IFC) as the Program Manager for Investment Climate
Advisory and with The World Bank as a Senior Specialist
in the South Asia Finance and Private sector unit in
lending operations for infrastructure and clean energy
financing, public private partnerships, SME financing,
banking and capital market reforms and technical
assistance in improving investment climate for private
sector development.
He has over 25 years of experience
in credit rating, management consulting, investment
banking, and international development financing and has
worked on project assignments in many Asian countries
which include Bangladesh, Nepal. Sri Lanka, Maldives,
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Philippines, Indonesia and Korea.
Dhruba is Bachelor of Engineering, Post Graduate in
Management from IIM, Calcutta and PhD in Financing
Infrastructure from IIT Delhi.