Experts & Staff
WRI India brings together 300+ staff and experts who are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as climate, economics and finance, food and land use, energy, governance and more. We work across 20+ states to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities.
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Program Experts & Staff
Sampriti Baruah
Program Head - Sustainable Agriculture
Sanjar Ali
Program Associate - Air Quality

Saransh Bajpai
Associate Director, Climate

Satbhan Singh
Senior Communications Associate - Core Communications

Saurabh Kataria
Program Manager-Industrial Decarbonization

Seema Yadav
Program Manager - Sustainable Agriculture

Shaurya Mall
Senior Program Associate - Urban Innovations

Shivangi Arvind
Senior Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture

Shreya Mittal
Senior Program Associate – Offshore Wind Energy

Shreyas Joshi
Senior Program Associate - Communications

Shweta Lamba
Program Manager - Food, Land and Water

Shweta Prajapati
Manager - Communications

Siddharth Thyagarajan
Senior Project Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport

Siddharth Edake
Senior Program Manager

Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring

Srishti Kochhar
Program Lead – Strategy and Program Management, Energy

Subrata Chakrabarty
Associate Program Director – Climate, Economics & Finance

Subzar Bashir
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport

Sudeshna Chatterjee
Program Director - Sustainable Cities and Transport

Tanya Chawla
Senior Program Associate-PMEL, Urban Development

Tirthankar Mandal
Associate Program Director – Energy

Trinayani Sen
Senior Program Associate - Electric Mobility

Umer Fayaz
Senior Associate - Communications

Utsav Shah
Program Associate - Hydrogen
Vaibhav Pahel
Program Associate – Communications

Vaibhav Ahuja
Program Associate – Eco City Regions

Vandana Tyagi
Senior Program Associate - Air Quality

Vandana Chauhan
Senior Associate - Facilities

Vanshika Mittal
Program Associate

Varun Agarwal
Senior Project Associate - Climate

Waseem Mir
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport

Vijay Anadkat
Program Senior Fellow - Sustainable Cities & Transport
