Nishant Bhardwaj serves as senior program manager of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) managing ISC’s work on the USAID Low Emissions Asian Development (LEAD) Program. Bhardwaj has over 16 years of professional experience in development finance, specializing in energy infrastructure and carbon finance. He is based in New Delhi.

Prior to joining ISC, Bhardwaj spent 7 years with the Asian Development Bank in Manila, where he managed the Asia Pacific Carbon Fund, a $152 million fund invested in 70 clean development mechanism projects. The fund was highly successful, supporting over 1800 MW clean energy projects in 11 countries in Asia. Previously, Bhardwaj was with IT Power Group and Development Alternatives. During his association with these organizations, he implemented and managed several significant energy and climate change policy assignments for private sector and international agencies including the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations Development Programme, Department of International Development, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK.

Bhardwaj has a Master of Technology in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and his Master of Science in Environmental Sciences.