Bio
Ms. Chandni Raina is an Adviser, Heading the Climate Change Finance Unit in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. She is responsible for issues concerning the financing of climate action and the multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral deliberations on climate finance. She had co-led the work of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group in the Indian Presidency of G20 and was India’s Lead on G20 Taskforce on a Global Mobilization against Climate Change (TF-CLIMA) in the Brazilian Presidency of G20. She is India’s finance negotiator in the UNFCCC process. Prior to this, Ms. Raina has worked in the area of intellectual property rights first as a Director in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and thereafter as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. She belongs to the 1996 batch of the Indian Economic Service.