Garima Desai

Biography

Garima Desai completed the MSc in Economics for Development and the MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment at Oxford. Shortly after, she moved back to California and has worked as a Sustainability Manager at Samsung Semiconductor focusing on compliance with the novel Californian climate laws, climate-related risk disclosure (TCFD), RE100 and carbon offset strategy, and GHG accounting. Garima focuses on the holistic nature of sustainability, working to coordinate technical sustainability knowledge with economics, law, data science, communication, politics, and stakeholder engagement. She currently resides in the Silicon Valley in California and enjoys music, reading, learning to sing (to no avail), fashion, and Vedic philosophy.