Standardising Carbon Markets: Improving Transparency and Traceability with Ai, Dlt & Iot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798868820366)

Kalyani Inampudi is currently an independent ESG and carbon consultant. She works directly with carbon offset solutions providers and those involved in reforestation or other activities that reduce or offset carbon emissions, funders, technologists, and policy makers globally. Kalyani also advises fintech companies and fund managers on ESG investments and strategies. Kalyani's knowledge and experience fuses asset management, data analysis and ESG consulting. Her expertise includes deep data research and writing investment proposals. She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (ACSI) and has certifications from the UNPRI, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board via the TCFD Knowledge Hub. She has an MBA from Imperial College Business School, London.

Jonathan E. Rackoff is an attorney and policy advisor with more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and regulatory strategy. He is the former Vice President and Head of Global Policy & Regulatory Affairs for the Hedera Foundation--the ecosystem-development arm of the Hedera Layer-1 distributed ledger network--where he helped lead climate-tech investment and related regulatory goals across North America, the EU, the UK, the Middle East, and APAC. He currently advises digital technology and climate-innovation companies on regulatory, commercial, and governance strategy in the Web3, AI, and carbon-markets sectors.

During the Obama Administration, Jonathan served in the White House as lead regulatory counsel to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and as Designated Agency Ethics Officer for the Office of Management and Budget. He later served as Senior Counsel for Congressional Affairs in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he oversaw the agency's response to more than 90 congressional investigations and 60 hearings in the 114th Congress.

In addition, Jonathan practiced appellate and Supreme Court litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C.; served as General Counsel of a biotechnology startup; and was a litigation partner at a Seattle boutique representing frontier-technology companies on high-stakes regulatory and crisis-management matters--including in a secondment to Coinbase's Policy and Ventures teams following its direct public listing.

He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and clerked both for the Hon. Proctor Hug, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.