Aishwarya Kuruttukulam

Aishwarya is the Environmental Innovation Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and Environment and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale. She is passionate about exploring innovative mechanisms for financing and deploying climate technologies. In her role at Yale, she will work closely with student entrepreneurs, faculty, alumni and affiliates to grow the climate technology ecosystem and accelerate the scaling of new ideas and solutions.

Aishwarya recently obtained a Master's in International and Development Economics from Yale University. Prior to Yale, she worked as a consultant to the state government in India in technological transformation of traditional industries. She also has experience working in venture capital where she worked closely with entrepreneurs as well as helped create ecosystems for impact. At Yale, she intends to draw on her experience to build a vibrant entrepreneurial and investor community. Originally from Kerala, India, Aishwarya loves the outdoors, cooking and reading, and a life full of music and plants!