Ketaki Zodgekar works across the Growald Climate Fund’s venture portfolio, identifying and supporting grantees making a transformative impact on the global clean energy transition.

Before joining Growald, Ketaki was a Junior Research Fellow at the Climate and Community Project, focusing on fiscal and climate justice for developing countries, and international tax governance. She was also a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying social movements, gender, and conflict. Ketaki started her career in British politics, conducting data-driven research on government effectiveness at the Institute for Government, a think tank in London. She has also worked in journalism at the Guardian newspaper and speechwriting at West Wing Writers.

Ketaki holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, where she was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow and member of the Climate Leaders Program. She received an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Edinburgh, during which she spent a year studying at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Ketaki loves cycling, reading and music. A Londoner with roots in India and New Zealand, Ketaki is currently based in Boston.