Session II: Green Finance and Green Growth

Neha Kumar heads the South Asia Program for Climate Bonds Initiative, driving policy and partner programs in India to scale up the green bonds market. She has over 14 years of experience in public policy and sustainable industry action in India. Prior to joining CBI, her work at GIZ led to regulations on ESG disclosures regulation by the Securities and Exchange Board of India; and the development of financial sector-led Responsible Financing Guidelines. 

Rinchen Choegyal, a Senior Sustainable Investment Research Analyst at Robeco, focuses on analyzing material ESG value drivers for global Technology, Media, and Telecommunications. With prior experience at Ruffer as an emerging market equities portfolio manager and as an Asian equities investment analyst at BlackRock, he also previously worked as a research associate for Beed Management in Nepal.

With over 30 years of experience internationally and locally in banking, finance and investments, Mr Pandey leads Nepal’s first international private equity fund having a climate focus. He is also the Chair of Nepal Private Equity Association and Nepal Agri-Business Incubation Centre. He is also a member of the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank and chairs the bank’s risk committee.

Teresa Daban Sánchez is the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Nepal, having previously held the same role in Armenia and Pakistan. Previously, she worked as a senior desk economist in numerous African and Latin American countries, participated in Financial Sector Assessment Program missions, and led technical assistance missions on public financial management. Before joining the IMF, she spent eight years at the Ministry of Finance in Spain.