Chavi is a Senior Manager in CPI’s London team, bringing extensive expertise in tracking and evaluating climate finance trends and policies at global, regional, and national levels, with a particular focus on Africa. She leads CPI’s national tracking workstream, supporting countries in implementing climate finance tracking systems and developing strategies to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Chavi provides technical expertise to CPI’s Africa office through key engagements across South Africa and the broader continent. This includes leading a three-year program with South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission to institutionalize climate finance tracking (South Africa), overseeing the UK PACT South Africa project to enhance the interoperability and usability of the country’s green finance taxonomy and Landscape of Climate Finance in Africa. She also manages energy transition and just transition initiatives in the UK office, including the IKI-supported Coal to Green program, which focuses on retiring coal-fired power plants in Indonesia through just transition and asset repurposing strategies.

At the global level, Chavi serves as CPI’s UNFCCC contact, contributing to the Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows (UNFCCC Sixth BA), a pivotal report informing COP negotiations. In the past, she has also worked at CPI’s India office to develop a business case for mobilizing institutional investments in the renewable energy sector in India, and under the India Innovation Lab for Green Finance, supported CPI’s work on low carbon transit.

Prior to CPI, she worked with the National Council of Applied Economic Research, a New Delhi based non-profit think tank of economics and CB Richard Ellis, a commercial real estate services and investment firm. Chavi holds a double Master’s: a Master’s programme in Economics with a specialization in Economic Development from South Asian University (SAARC Nations) and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the London School of Economics.