Sidhant Pai
FounderCo-Founder, Chief Science Officer at StepChange
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
FoundedStepChange
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Sidhant Pai is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at StepChange, where he leads a team modeling physical and transition climate risk, including Scope 3 emissions, for banks, insurers and investors; the company's models have been applied to over $1 trillion in financial exposure and used for regulatory stress testing. His work focuses on translating catastrophe, exposure and vulnerability analytics into financial metrics such as climate-adjusted VaR, LTV, PD and LGD for use in underwriting, capital planning and sustainable finance workflows. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Modeling and an S.B. in Environmental Engineering Science from MIT, and previously served as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Columbia Climate School working on sensor networks for city-scale pollutant monitoring.
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- Who is Sidhant Pai?
- Sidhant Pai is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at StepChange, where he leads a team modeling physical and transition climate risk, including Scope 3 emissions, for banks, insurers and investors; the company's models have been applied to over $1 trillion in financial exposure and used for regulatory stress testing. His work focuses on translating catastrophe, exposure and vulnerability analytics into financial metrics such as climate-adjusted VaR, LTV, PD and LGD for use in underwriting, capital planning and sustainable finance workflows. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Modeling and an S.B. in Environmental Engineering Science from MIT, and previously served as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Columbia Climate School working on sensor networks for city-scale pollutant monitoring.
- Where does Sidhant Pai work?
- Sidhant Pai is Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer of StepChange.
- What companies did Sidhant Pai found?
- Sidhant Pai founded StepChange.
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