Experts & Staff
WRI India brings together over 400 experts and staff working across systems like food, land and water; energy; and cities. To enable progress at the pace and scale needed, we also engage with the economic, finance and governance systems that are key to enabling this change.
India Executive Team
Gagandeep Bajwa
Director – Human Resources, WRI India
Kavneet Kaur
Head – Development
Climate, Economics and Finance
Varun Agarwal
Program Research Lead
Aarushi Aggarwal
Senior Program Associate – Climate Finance
Human Resources
Mitali Dohroo
Senior Manager - Human Resources
Dolma Sharma
Senior Associate – Talent Acquisition
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Aashima Bhandari
Senior Program Associate - Transport
Sonal Ganvir
Junior Program Associate
Kartik Gurjar
Program Associate
Kapil Kumar
Senior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport
Program Experts & Staff
Harpreet Singh Arora
Program Head – Urbanist, Economic Development
Prateek Barapatre
Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Avtar Bhalla
Program Associate - Transport
Abhishek Bhardwaj
Program Manager – Energy
Ananya Chakraborty
Senior Program Research Specialist
Heleena Christian
Program Manager – Wind Energy
Chintan Daftardar
Program Head – Transport
Siddharth Edake
Senior Program Manager
Chandana K
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Himanshi Kapoor
Program Associate - Urban Development
Saurabh Kataria
Program Manager-Industrial Decarbonization - Climate, Economics and Finance
Mandeep Kaur
Manager - Facilities & IT
Simranpreet Kaur
Program Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture
Bhanu Khanna
Senior Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Srishti Kochhar
Program Lead – Strategy and Program Management, Energy
Nupur Kulkarni
Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta
Associate Director - Urban Development
Deep Ponikar
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport
Kajal Singh
Junior Program Research Analyst
Raghav Srivastava
Senior Program Research Analyst – Landscape Restoration
Aditi Sundan
Program Manager – Communications
Radha Yadav
Junior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
