SVP, Sustainability Solutions & Business Integration - Liberty Mutual Insurance
Rakhi Kumar is Senior Vice President at Liberty Mutual, where she leads efforts to integrate sustainability across the global enterprise. She chairs Liberty’s Climate Council, an internal cross-functional group that is developing and co-ordinating the company’s climate-related activities. She also represents Liberty on the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) Forum, the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Framework’s (PCAF) Insurance Emissions Working Group and the Institute of International Finance’s Sustainable Finance Policy Expert Group.
Rakhi joined Liberty in May 2020, prior to which she led State Street Global Advisors’ ESG Investing and Asset Stewardship activities. Other organizations she has worked at include the Institute of International Finace, Ernst&Young, Moody’s and Booz Allen. She serves on the Advisory Board of Persefoni, a SaaS-based carbon accounting, reporting and management platform and is a member of the North American S&P Global Sustainable1 Investor Client Council.
Rakhi is a globally recognized leader in the area of sustainability and was recognized as such by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). She has also been identified as Boston's 100 Most Influential People of Color and is a recipient of the Abigail Adams Award for her work in promoting gender diversity on corporate boards.
She earned her MBA ('02) from Yale University and her Bachelors of Commerce ('95) from Bombay University. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1997 and completed a certification in Life Cycle Assessments from MIT in 2023.