Srusti Ithal

Background

About Srusti Ithal

Srusti Ithal grew up in Bengaluru, India, where she witnessed firsthand how climate change transformed the city's once-pleasant weather into extremes of heat and rain. This experience has driven her to focus her career on leveraging her engineering background to mitigate climate change and its effects. Before moving to the United States, Srusti worked in the construction industry, where she contributed to the design and improvement of two green building projects. During this time, she recognized the potential of existing solutions to combat climate change, which shifted her focus to implementation and sparked her interest in sustainability policy and finance. In the summer of 2024, Srusti served as a Summer Associate (Projects & Operations) at RMI within the Third Derivative Climate Tech Accelerator, where she played a pivotal role in building and optimizing a mentor database to support startups. Previously, she was a VC Industry Research Extern with Energy Innovation Capital, where she conducted market analysis focused on battery storage technology and performed due diligence on her peers' analyses. Srusti is committed to advancing her career in the Climatetech sector. Srusti is a graduate student in the Industrial Management program at Johns Hopkins University, with a technical focus on Environmental Systems Analysis, Public Policy, and Economics. She was awarded a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University in India.