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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India Executive Team
Bharath Jairaj
Executive Director - Energy
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Rama Thoopal
Director, Communications
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Abhishek Venkitaraman
Senior Program Associate-GIS
Jahnvi Sreedhar
Senior Program Associate, SBCC Specialist
Program Experts & Staff
Achu R Sekhar
Alisha Abraham
Senior Program Associate – Energy Efficiency
Anjana Rajagopalan
Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Aparna Vijaykumar
Program Manager – Electric Mobility
Aravinda Devaraj
Senior Program Research Analyst — Sustainable Cities and Transport
Arpitha Lakshman
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Arun Manohar
Senior Program Associate
Arun Krishnan
Program Director – Climate Finance
Arvind Manickam
Program Manager – Transport
Baalaji Ravichandran
Senior Program Associate – Offshore Wind Energy
Deepak Sriram Krishnan
Deputy Program Director – Energy
Dhilon Subramanian
Senior Program Manager – Energy
Faiza Solanki
Fathima Husain
Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
T.S. Gowthami
Program Manager – Energy
Harish Palani
Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy
Harshil Suresh
Senior Program Associate - Urban Innovations
Khushi Parakh
Junior Program Associate – Climate Policy
Krishna Priya Poroori
Program Associate
Namratha Murali
Senior Communications Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Nidhin Davis
Program Manager
Pavithra T S
Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Dr. Prakash Doraiswamy
Program Director – Air Quality
Praseeda Mukundan
Senior Program Research Associate - Urban Development
Pravin Cherukuthota
Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Priya Narayanan
Program Manager - Urban Development
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Ramya MA
Rejeet Mathews
Program Director - Urban Development
Robin Infant Raj Devadoss
Senior Program Research Analyst – Publications Coordinator
Shanmugam Darjibrother
Associate - IT
Shyny Sam
Senior Program Associate - Energy
Siddharth Thyagarajan
Senior Project Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring
Sowmya M
Program Associate - Transport
