Namita Rajesh

Namita is a Senior Project Support Officer in the Climate Finance Unit at Catholic Relief Services. She leads the due diligence and contracting processes for CRS’s growing pipeline of climate and carbon finance programs. Namita joined CRS after having worked for several years at the World Bank Group in Washington DC. While at the World Bank, she worked on several clean energy Trust Funds and worked on the transition of climate finance mechanisms from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement. Prior to that, she worked at Access Partnership, a policy consulting firm in Washington DC. Namita holds an M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and lives in Washington DC with her husband and pet dog.