Expertise across law, adaptation and finance

Sangeetha Iengar

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

PILLAR II · MOBILITY

Sangeetha is an award-winning international human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers, where she has specialised for two decades in migration and international human rights and public law. She was named International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year in 2020 and is ranked as a leading junior in the Legal 500.

She has been a non-resident Senior Scholar at Yale University, researching climate-related migration, and sits as a part-time Judge of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. A TEDx speaker, she writes and speaks widely on climate mobility, the rule of law and human rights.

Speak to Sangeetha about: climate resilient governance, the legal basis for action, rights-based pathways, and partnerships with governments and funders.

Aliya Anjarwalla

CLIMATE ADAPTATION SPECIALIST

PILLAR I · ADAPTATION

Aliya is a climate and resilience strategist with more than fifteen years’ experience designing and leading initiatives across Africa, Europe and the United States. She has advised governments, investors, energy companies and multilateral organisations, including the World Bank and UNICEF, on climate adaptation and decarbonisation strategies.

She began her career at Accenture in London, advising on renewable energy investment, and went on to develop programmes in East Africa that expanded off-grid renewable electricity access and strengthened community climate resilience.

Speak to Aliya about: adaptation, disaster risk and climate finance, including private investment in resilience.

Wasim A. Tahir

CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT FINANCE SPECIALIST

FINANCE

Wasim is a specialist in climate and development finance, private capital mobilisation and blended finance, with a growing focus on climate mobility. His research with the Institute examines how private capital can be mobilised for climate mobility, through green diaspora bonds and remittance-backed instruments.

From 2024 to 2026 he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development. Before that, he was a Director at British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution, where he defined its approach to mobilising private capital at scale, particularly for climate finance.

Speak to Wasim about: financing both pillars, private capital mobilisation and diaspora finance.