Labanya Prakash Jena is working as a Senior Manager and Head, Centre for Sustainable Finance, Climate Policy Initiative. Before this, he was working as the Regional Climate Finance Adviser Indo-Pacific Region at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Prior to this, he was a sustainable finance consultant for UNDP – leading the drafting of India's sustainable finance roadmap in association with the Ministry of Finance. He is a management graduate and holds a Master's in Economics from Utkal University. He is also a CFA Charter holder. Besides, he is a Doctoral Scholar at XLRI, Jamshedpur. He is a prolific writer on climate change, sustainability, and finance.