MBA candidate, Kellogg 2028
Nimrat
Brar
I want to understand how things work, and how a decision travels through a company, a government or a room full of stakeholders until something actually changes. That curiosity has taken me through banking, data and technology, and it’s what brought me to Kellogg.
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
Bachelor of Engineering
Mechanical engineering. Topped the branch in 2016, and ran the campus environmental society.
Monash University; Lactalis; ENGIE Impact
Master of Advanced Mechanical Engineering (Australia Awards Scholar); Sustainability Intern, twice
One of 8 Australia Awards scholars selected across India, funded by the Australian government. Graduated with High Distinction.
S&P Global
Analyst – Low Carbon Commodities
Emissions models for the oil fields and shales behind 82% of world oil and gas production, at asset level, where the available data stopped at the company.
JP Morgan Chase & Co
Analyst – Climate Risk
Wrote the methodology for a client net-zero readiness score and stayed on it through rollout, tracking decarbonization across $1.1 tn in credit exposure.
Novisto
Data Management Analyst – ESG
Took over a 4-person analyst team in the middle of a restructure. The reporting workflow revamp took 3 months and cut feature release times by 75%.
Vancity
Management Consultant – Climate Risk
Led Vancity’s first climate risk framework from design to Board ratification in 5 months, as the only person doing climate risk at the firm.
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
MBA Candidate
I’ve lived and worked in India, Australia, Canada and now the US, and each place came with a new field, new people and a different way of doing things. Along the way I’ve learned to be agile in how I learn, and I’ve come to enjoy that part the most.
Outside work, I play tennis and take a lot of photographs, mostly of cities: streets, buildings, the odd skyline. I also read about AI, climate science and economics, and I’m slowly turning some of it into writing. I’d love to hear from you, whether it’s about something I’ve written or just to say hello. Email me, find me on LinkedIn, or use the form at the bottom.
Reading
The New Map
The New Map
Yergin on shale and American power, on why pipelines decide so much of European policy, and on what the transition does to a country whose budget runs on oil. I hand it to people because it takes the losing side of the transition seriously, which most climate writing doesn’t.
Energy is the lifeblood of the modern world, and the map of energy is being redrawn.
Introduction The transition will be shaped not only by technology and cost, but by politics and the interests of nations.
Part VI, on the energy transition Why Nations Fail
Why Nations Fail
The argument is that prosperity comes down to institutions: who’s allowed in on the rules, and who collects. They test it across centuries and continents and it holds up better than I expected. I keep reading it next to Joel Mokyr on creative destruction (he’s at Northwestern, where I’m headed), because both of them land on the thing I keep meeting in climate finance, where the usual diagnosis is a shortage of capital when the real constraint is who has the authority to commit it.
Nations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate.
Chapter 3 Fear of creative destruction is the main reason why there was no sustained increase in living standards between the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions.
Chapter 6
Corrections on the writing, questions about the work, or a coffee chat. I read everything that comes through here.
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