Himani Phadke is a research assistant at Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and one of the winners of the 2012 International Impact Investing Challenge. She was chair of the 2012 Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference, which focused on emerging markets. Last summer, she worked at the U.N. Foundation in Washington D.C. as MAP Fellow on the U.N.'s Sustainable Energy for All initiative. Phadke grew up in Mumbai, where she became interested in addressing development challenges in a sustainable manner. She has an M.Sc. in economics for development from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in economics and statistics from St. Xavier's College in India. Previously she worked in London at financial consulting firm LECG and the U.K. Treasury, developing policies for managing failures in the investment banking sector. She is interested in global sustainable development and climate change issues - energy access in particular - and the development of viable social enterprises and infrastructure projects.

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International Impact Investing Challenge: Honoring the Winners

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