Serena Nanji-Totani

Serena Nanji-Totani joins the MIP program with five years of experience working in business, social impact, and climate finance. Most recently, she has worked at Conservation International (CI), where she serves as Carbon Deals Manager, working to accelerate the organization's growing carbon project portfolio across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. She focuses on assessing the viability of early-stage nature-based projects and structuring innovative financial mechanisms to ensure the long-term success of these projects, both from a financial and community benefit perspective. Prior to CI, Serena spent nearly four years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she advised Fortune 500 and non-profit clients on strategy and operational challenges. She also served on BCG's Global Internal Sustainability Team, where she helped manage the firm's nature-based carbon credit portfolio and led one of the firm's largest procurements of engineered-based carbon credits. 

Serena holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Geography from Dartmouth College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received the Donella Meadows Prize for Promoting Sustainability. Serena grew up in seven different countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa, and values having global-minded friends, colleagues, and classmates. At Stanford, she plans to explore policy mechanisms that make nature-based solutions more economically viable and socially inclusive and to harness innovative finance to accelerate climate action. In her free time, Serena enjoys dance and mountaineering, having summited several peaks across the world.