Nidhi Upadhyaya is the deputy director for global policy and finance with the adaptation finance and policy pillar of the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center (formerly known as Arsht-Rock). She leads the center’s global policy and finance pillar and its engagement in India and South Asia.

Prior to joining the Climate Resilience Center in 2019, Upadhyaya was an associate director at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. She contributed to the center’s policy research initiatives and programmatic tasks and initiated a discussion at the World Bank’s Civil Society Policy Forum in 2019 on financial inclusion for women in South Asia and globally. She has also held roles with the policy consulting firm, Bower Group Asia, and with the Indian business news channel ET NOW. As part of the United Nations’ Race to Resilience campaign in 2021, she supported systems transformation solutions to achieve the campaign’s goal of building the resilience of four billion people most vulnerable to climate change.

Upadhyaya has contributed to publications on trade, climate finance, and resilience, including at the Atlantic Council and in collaboration with the Climate Policy Initiative.

Originally from Mumbai, India, Upadhyaya graduated with a master’s degree in international affairs from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in 2017 and also holds an MBA in media with a post-graduate in journalism from India.