Santosh is a Partner and Managing Director at Intellecap and leads its Agriculture and Climate Solutions’ practices. He has more than 20 years of experience in scaling up market-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has led several initiatives on shaping up energy access financing, ESG, carbon markets, and sustainable finance interventions across Asia and Africa.

Before joining Intellecap, Santosh worked with the World Bank (South Asia Region) where his work focused on developing affordable clean cooking/energy access solutions, and climate finance interventions for varied sectors. Previously, he worked as a Technical Expert for GIZ and led the Rural Market Insight program at the Institute for Financial Management and Research.

He has advised several corporates, philanthropies and financial institutions on devising strategy, developing impact matrix and raising climate and development finance.