NEW YORK (TIP): Time magazine has appointed Indian American climate change expert and policy maker Shyla Raghav as its Chief Climate Officer based in New York. “This promotion is not just a recognition of Shyla’s great work to date, it’s as much a proof point of TIME’s dedication to climate action,” TIME President of Sustainability, Simon Mulcahy wrote in note to staff on Tuesday. “Shyla will focus on building on our momentum and expanding our climate programs and community, as well as further evolving TIME’s own climate goals and journey.”
“TIME is committed to the critical role of the media to inspire and enable climate action. To date, we have launched the TIME CO2 Earth Awards, our amazing Advisory Council and our Climate Futures Program,” Mulcahy wrote.
After a full and exciting program of events across New York for Climate week, Time will be shortly rolling out a high-profile agenda for COP 28, he wrote.
“Shyla has spent her entire career working on climate solutions and advocating for climate action,” Mulcahy wrote. “She brings 15 years of experience in climate change policy, international climate finance, coalition building, and nature conservation.”
During her time at Time as Chief Portfolio and Partnership Officer of TIME CO2, Shyla has been instrumental in the design and launch of a groundbreaking product, the TIME CO2 Planet Portfolio, which blended climate, nature, and community projects into a single portfolio to help channel funding to high quality programs as an alternative to offsetting.
She has also successfully established a range of partnerships and an expert Advisory Council to guide TIME CO2’s climate programs. Prior to joining Time, she served as Vice President for Climate Change at Conservation International, where she was responsible for the organization’s strategy on climate change and climate action coalitions. This included supporting the Maldives, leader of the Alliance of Small Island States, during the negotiations on the Paris Climate Agreement. Prior to that, she conducted research on climate change in Dominica, Belize and Thailand, in addition to professional experiences at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Development Program, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, and the Adaptation Fund.
Raghav was featured in In Style Magazine’s “Badass Women.” She also delivered the popular TEDx talk on reimagining climate change and sacrifice. Raghav was born in India and lived in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, where she witnessed the effects of climate change firsthand. She holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Yale University.