👋 Hi, I'm Maitreyi — and I'm building a career at the intersection of capital markets, climate technology, and global development.
 

I’m currently a Fellow at the Climate Knowledge Initiative at Columbia Business School and a David Leuschen Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy, based in New York. Before that, I was earning my Master’s in International Finance and Climate Policy at Columbia SIPA, where I worked as a researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and led a capstone with UN DESA on infrastructure asset management for The Gambia. I’ve supported nature-based lending design at New Leaf Climate Partners, helped structure investment vehicles at Desai & Associates and Asha Ventures, impact measurement at IFC, and worked with early-stage deeptech climate startups, Peak Sustainability Ventures. 

I also co-founded Clean Crop, a digital agri-tech venture helping Indian smallholder rice farmers adopt climate-smart cultivation through AWD training, traceability, and transition capital.

Outside of work, I read too many book reviews and not enough books, maintain a rotating list of things I’m obsessed with, and act as an unofficial tour guide for friends visiting New York or India. I love 90s dream pop, upcycling vintage sarees into clothing, and collecting stories about how people make decisions under pressure.