Chandra Shekhar Sinha

Chandra Shekhar Sinha is the Global Lead for Carbon Markets and Finance in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank as a part of the team that established carbon finance at the institution and has also worked on energy and climate change in the Latin America and Caribbean and South Asia regions of the World Bank. 

Chandra Shekhar has previously worked at JP Morgan, TERI (New Delhi), and at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Energy Studies from IIT, Delhi and master’s degree in physics from IIT, Kanpur, India. His current work focuses on: (1) development of Paris- aligned carbon markets; (2) leveraging climate finance for World Bank operations including deepening engagement with clients; and (3) maximizing synergies of different climate change initiatives of the Climate Change Group at the World Bank.