Uday Khemka
Uday Khemka is Vice Chairman of the SUN Group and Managing Trustee of the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation (NJKF). At NJKF, he has led the foundation’s philanthropic climate initiatives, the most longstanding of any Indian philanthropy, since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. Key focus areas include India’s climate policies, global climate philanthropy collaboration, and global climate finance (as senior climate advisor to H.M. King Charles’s P8 and the Institutional Investors Roundtable and as chairman of the Indian Government’s Clean Energy Finance Forum). Uday is also a founder of the Green AI Learning initiative (GRAIL) and has helped established the Climate & Health Funders Coalition.
Current or former advisory and board positions include the Synergos Institute, The Climate Group, Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Indian School of Business, the Public Health Foundation of India, HM King Charles’s Sustainable Markets Council and the Climate Capital Mobilization Accelerator .
After working at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley, Uday has led the SUN Group’s new industrial platforms and investments in various climate related sectors including renewable energy and electric mobility, alongside other group responsibilities.
Educated at Eton College and Cambridge University, Uday received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar). He was elected a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005.
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.