Sidhant Pai
FounderCo-Founder & Chief Science Officer at StepChange
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
FoundedStepChange
About
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.
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer at StepChange
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Experience
- StepChangeCo-Founder & Chief Science Officercurrent2022 — present
- Social Seva InitiativesCo-Founder & Director2014 — 2024Pune, India
- Columbia Climate SchoolPostdoctoral Research Scientist2022 — 2023
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctoral Researcher2017 — 2022Cambridge, MA
- MIT PKG Center for Public ServiceData Specialist2020 — 2022Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT PKG Center for Public ServiceGraduate Fellow2018 — 2020Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- The Protoprint ProjectCo-Founder & CEO2012 — 2016Pune, India
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Undergraduate Research Assistant2011 — 2014Cambridge, MA
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Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- Where did Sidhant Pai go to school?
- Sidhant Pai studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Modeling); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B., Environmental Engineering Science).
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