Nimrat Brar

Evanston, IL · nimrat.brar@kellogg.northwestern.edu

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Experience

Vancity

Climate Risk Management Consultant

  • Developed a climate risk management framework ratified by the Board, covering a $41bn balance sheet.
  • Embedded mandatory climate screening into credit adjudication.
  • Set interim targets of 54% emissions reduction by 2030.

Novisto

ESG Data Management Analyst

  • Led a 4-person analyst team through a reporting workflow revamp in 3 months, cutting release times by 75%.
  • Acted as firmwide subject matter expert on carbon accounting and disclosure as the product expanded into 14 new countries.

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Climate Risk Analyst

  • Built the climate readiness score tracking decarbonization across $1.1tn of credit exposure.
  • Surfaced $140bn of environmental risk concentration that existing reporting had not identified.
  • Quantified transition risk across a $650bn oil, power and auto manufacturing portfolio.

S&P Global

Low Carbon Commodity Analyst

  • Built emissions quantification models for oil fields and shales representing 82% of global oil and gas production, integrated into the firm's commodity platform.

ENGIE Impact

Sustainability Intern

  • Built net-zero transition strategies for mining clients, identifying $40mn in potential savings.

Lactalis

Sustainability Intern

  • Modelled solar PV emissions reductions in dairy processing, informing a $75mn provincial solar policy proposal.

Education

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Master of Business Administration

  • [NIMRAT: majors, clubs or awards, exactly as the PDF lists them.]

Monash University

Master of Advanced Mechanical Engineering

  • Australia Awards Scholar, one of 8 recipients selected across India, fully funded by DFAT.

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Certifications

  • Sustainability and Climate Risk (GARP)
  • Certificate in ESG Investing (CFA Institute)
  • LEED Green Associate (USGBC)

Skills

  • Climate risk modelling: readiness scoring, risk identification frameworks, portfolio concentration
  • Transition and physical risk scenarios across oil and gas, electric power and auto manufacturing
  • Carbon accounting and disclosure: double materiality, CSRD, ISSB
  • Renewable energy and solar PV abatement economics