Dhruba Purkayastha is the India Director for Climate Policy Initiative, a global non-profit research and advisory institution, working on Green Finance, Climate Finance and Energy Transition. Climate Policy Initiative is engaged with several advisory, research and convening initiatives in energy transition, transition finance, and green finance in India. As part of the US-India Clean Energy Initiative between US and Indian governments in 2016, Dhruba set up and led the US-India Clean Energy Finance Facility (USICEF). Recently, he has also set up the Center for Sustainable Finance (CSF) in India to mainstream sustainability and sustainable finance in academic courses so that future generations are better equipped with underlying concepts of sustainability. With over 30 years of experience in credit rating, management consulting, investment banking, engineering industries and international development financing. As an ex-World Bank Group staff and International Finance Corporation, Dhruba has worked in private and financial sector development, infrastructure and clean energy financing, public-private partnerships, banking & capital market reforms and technical assistance in improving the investment climate in India.