
Kartikeya Bhatotia
Kartikeya Bhatotia is a Climate Fellow at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, where he leads the research and programmatic activities of the Institute’s Climate Platform and the Salata South Asia cluster. His work focuses on climate finance for adaptation, climate governance, and the social dimensions of climate change, including the impacts of extreme climatic events on public health, labor, and the economy.
He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2024. Prior to Harvard, Kartikeya focused on behavioral economics and its applications in health, climate, and economic development while working with Tata Trusts and the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India. He was a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University in 2018. Kartikeya holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.