Veena Ramani is senior program director, Capital Market Systems, for Ceres. Ramani is the author of the 2020 Ceres report, Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for US Financial Regulators, which makes the case that climate change poses systemic risk to US financial markets, and outlines over 50 action steps that financial market regulators can take to address this risk. Prior to Ceres, Ramani worked as a management consultant with CDM, an environmental consulting firm. Ramani also spent three years with Integrative Strategies Forum, a nonprofit organization working on developing national and international policy solutions on sustainable development. Before that, Ramani practiced law in India. Ramani was interviewed for the cover story of the 2017 fall edition of C-Suite Magazine, and her work has been featured by NACD, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, the Huffington Post, Environmental Leader, and Responsible Investor.