Sanggeet Mithra Manirajah

Sanggeet Mithra Manirajah is a Senior Consultant at Climate Focus. Her expertise lies in delivering research findings in land use, nature-based solutions, and carbon markets towards effective public and private sector action. She advises governments and decision-makers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on leveraging carbon markets to finance climate change action. As part of the Global Forest Declaration Assessment, Sanggeet has coordinated and facilitated a network of 30 research and non-profit organizations to collectively examine the progress on forest goals. She also led the research and co-authored the first Forest Declaration Regional Assessment, a grassroots-driven report that tracks progress on the efforts to implementing and achieving forest goals in the Congo Basin.

Sanggeet has 10 years of experience as a facilitator and trainer, and has designed and led workshops, dialogues and trainings for a wide variety of audiences, including policymakers, corporates, civil society, and youth across the world. Sanggeet is a co-founder and Chairperson of the Board of Architects of Diversity, a non-profit initiative that bridges different identify groups among youth in Malaysia.

Sanggeet holds a Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Scripps College in California. A native Malaysian, Sanggeet speaks fluent Bahasa Malaysia, English, Spanish and conversational Tamil and German.

In her free time, Sanggeet enjoys reading, experimenting in the kitchen, and doing yoga.