SIPA Alumni Day — Distinguished Alumni Award: Radha Kulkarni MPA '17

Radha Kulkarni MPA '17 works at the intersection of finance, strategy, and policy, having worked across multilaterals, government, and private sector. She is the investment manager and leads the Innovative Financing Pathway at United Nations Children’s Fund’s new Innovative Finance Hub that works on new mechanisms to unlock global capital in support of children across 190 countries. She was also recently appointed as one of UNICEF’s Ethics and Culture Champions. Previously, she worked with UNICEF’s Private Sector team building new-age partnerships on financing, with its Youth portfolio leveraging innovative financing for young people, and with United Nations Development Programme’s Policy Bureau on Fiscal and Development Financing helping scale the work across 40 countries. Learn more: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/alumni/...