Nidhi Sarin has over 17 years of experience of working in energy, climate change and environment related project. She currently heads GIZ’s Access to Energy Pragramme and has worked on multi-million projects on areas including distributed and grid connected renewable energy, power sector reforms, climate change, and long term energy planning for energy transition. Her experience includes working on support to government on policy development, formulating regulations and standards, private sector development through enhanced bilateral cooperation, primarily in India. She has been actively working with the private sector to provide incubation support and implementing programmes on public private partnerships to improve overall sector environment. She has an experience of working with bilateral, multilateral organizations, corporate sector and non-government organizations. Previously, Ms Sarin has worked with the UK government on Energy and Climate. She was responsible for advising on electricity sector reforms and on climate change programmes for low carbon growth.