Shubhra Verma

Shubhra is a Manager at EY working in Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) in the New York office, focusing on decarbonization projects. Prior to EY, she worked as an Environmental Finance Analyst at EEAM, working on Carbon Markets, ESG integration, and Marginal Abatement Cost Curve. She has been working in sustainability consultancies since 2015 and received her Master in Environmental Management from Yale with a specialization in Business and Environment in 2021, and Master in Green Technology (Chemical Engineering) from Institute of Chemical Technology in 2015.

While at Yale, she interned at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 2020 in their Circular Economy team working on Circular Transition Indicators (CTI). Additionally, she worked as a Teaching Assistant for Financing and Deploying Clean Energy and as a Research Assistant for Center for Industrial Ecology, where she researched on resource efficiency and circular economy policy review for International Resource Panel (IRP) study. She was the co-leader for Yale Environmental Women Student Interest Group, Associate Manager at Yale Graduate Consulting Club, and Mentor at Women in Science at Yale (WISAY). Furthermore, she also engaged in multiple Sustainability projects such as sustainable cotton supply chain, standardizing metrics for plastic foot-printing, community solar for low-and middle-income households, electronic waste management, and corporate sustainability reporting. She was a delegate in the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP25) at Madrid and experienced real-time pivotal decisions made on International Climate Agreements.

Prior to Yale, she worked on a wide range of projects in collaboration with Development Banks and on Corporate sustainability projects primarily on Industrial Pollution Abatement, Wastewater treatment, carbon foot-printing, circular economy, electronic waste, and solar waste management. She has extensive experience in project management, decision support tools, stakeholder management, financial analysis, research-based projects, and technical writing working on multi-faceted green technology, industrial ecology, and environmental projects. In her free time, she enjoys reading, running, and yoga.