Akshat Rathi

Why you should listen

An award-winning senior climate reporter for Bloomberg News, Akshat Rathi's writing probes how climate change — and humanity's response to it — is reshaping the world. He is the host of Zero, a weekly climate podcast for Bloomberg Green, and writes a weekly newsletter on climate solutions. His first book, Climate Capitalism, has been named one of the best books of the year by The Times and The Economic Times. He has worked for Quartz and The Economist, and his work has been cited in widely read global publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. He has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a bachelor of technology in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai.