Unnati Patel is a second-year Master in Public Policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, where she focuses on climate resilience and mitigation and their intersections with finance and development. Most recently, she worked with IDB Invest’s Blended Finance Division in Washington, D.C., using concessional finance to bring private capital into low-carbon and climate-resilient projects across Latin America and the Caribbean. Before HKS, she spent two and a half years as a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL South Asia, partnering with Indian state governments on climate, public health, and data capacity initiatives. She previously worked on urban infrastructure policy at the Observer Research Foundation and on climate-resilient agriculture with the Hindustan Unilever Foundation. Having grown up in Mumbai, she brings a deep personal commitment to helping vulnerable cities and communities adapt to a changing climate.