Kartikeya is a Climate Fellow at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, where he oversees the research and programmatic activities of the Climate Platform. He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2024. Prior to Harvard, Kartikeya focused on behavioral economics and its applications in health, climate, and economic development while working with Tata Trusts and the Institute for Financial Management and Research in India. In 2018, he was a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi.