Srishti is presently Lead – Strategy and Program Management with the Energy Program at WRI India. She was previously with WRI India’s Food, Land and Water program for ~4 years, where she was most recently the Senior Program Manager for the Harit Bharat Fund. Her work at WRI work cuts across strategy, program management, policy, monitoring, research and innovation, fundraising, and implementation. She previously served as a Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Ambassador as well as Chair of the Staff Assembly at WRI.

A social scientist by training, Srishti has diverse experience in the development sector and the environmental social sciences, across roles ranging from leadership to strategic and managerial positions, to research, and field-based positions. Her consistent endeavor is to bolster the iterative relationship between academic theory and development practice, particularly in the realm of environmental governance, management and conservation.

Srishti holds an MSc (with Distinction) in Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she was awarded the Institute Silver Medal, and a BA (with Distinction) in Political Science Honours from Hindu College, Delhi University. Her fieldwork experience in India spans across Assam, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi, with WWF-India, Saevus, Centre for Study of Developing Societies, among others. Her research interests include nature-society-technology relationships in the Anthropocene, the food-land-energy nexus, decolonial thought and methods, resilience and adaptation to climate change and the role of technologies therein, and novel methodologies for the increased accessibility of science and academia.

Srishti is an advanced open-water diver and high-altitude trekker, an ardent dog lover, and an amateur wildlife photographer.