Sonal Mahida is vice president of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), where she currently oversees operations in the United States.

Sonal Mahida is vice president of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), where she currently oversees operations in the United States.

CDP, a global non-profit organization, collects key climate change data from some 2,500 major corporations around the globe and has assembled the largest corporate greenhouse gas emissions database in the world. The organization also works with multinational organizations to facilitate the collection of climate change relevant data for their supply chain. In 2009 alone, CDP's works was featured in The New York Times Businessweek, Newsweek, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal.

During her career, Sonal has spoken on sustainability and climate change topics at over 20 leading events from investor roundtables to major business conferences. Before joining CDP in 2008, Sonal was a senior governance analyst at TIAA-CREF, where she helped developed the firm's social environmental proxy voting guidelines, led dialogues and engagements on ESG issues with portfolio companies, and was responsible for proxy voting on these issues. She holds an M.B.A. in non-profit management as well as finance from Boston University's School of Management and a B.A. from Barnard College.

She is also a board member of the Association of Climate Change Officers.