Dr. Rohini Kamal, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), is leading BIGD's Environment and Climate Change research. She completed her PhD in Economics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a Research Fellow at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University where she investigates environmental and distributional impacts of energy finance. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr Kamal worked at Urban Climate Change Research Network, a project under NASA/GISS and the Earth Institute, on using climate information for urban policy as part of her Master’s degree at Columbia University, New York.