Kamya Choudhary

Kamya Choudhary is a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Accelerator working on new perspectives on institutional climate finance and climate governance, supporting non-state actors make decisions in contexts of climate fragility and uncertainty, and exploring pathways for regenerative and pro-nature development. She also holds the position of Gender Co-chair in the Equality and Diversity Working Group at Chatham House.

Prior to this, Kamya was an India Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE). Here, she was working with Professor Nicholas Stern on international climate policy, renewable energy, climate finance and trade with a focus on India. 

She also contributed to the Stern Team’s inputs at multilateral forums like COP, G20, UNFCCC, Finance for Development, etc. and initiatives driven by the World Bank, Observer Research Foundation, International Solar Alliance, CGIAR, OECD, etc.

At LSE she managed the UK Secretariat for the India-UK Track II Dialogue on Climate Change and Energy, facilitating inter-country collaboration and knowledge exchange for policymakers and business leaders. In addition, she co-created the gender, poverty and climate finance workstream within the Institute, helped setup the Global Impact Group at the Global School of Sustainability, LSE, and was a member of the ‘Women in Diplomacy’ research project at IDEAS, LSE’s foreign policy think tank.

With a background in interdisciplinary social science and qualitative research, Kamya holds a PhD and MSc in international development from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and a BA (Hons.) in political science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India.

Her research interests include working on climate change and gender, sustainable development in the Global South and the interconnections between food-energy-water in an era of climate change.