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
Bharath Jairaj
Executive Director - Energy
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Rama Thoopal
Program Director — Communications
Energy
Alisha Abraham
Senior Program Associate – Energy Efficiency
Deepak Sriram Krishnan
Deputy Program Director (Energy)
Harish Palani
Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy
Umesh Kumar Sharma Ramamoorthi
Senior Program Research Associate – Energy
Baalaji Ravichandran
Senior Program Associate – Offshore Wind Energy
Shyny Sam
Program Manager – Energy
Dhilon Subramanian
Senior Program Manager – Energy
T.S. Gowthami
Program Manager – Energy
Climate, Economics and Finance
Nidhin Davis
Program Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Ananya Srinivasan
Junior Program Associate - Climate, Economics, and Finance
Climate Resilience Practice
Vishvak Kannan
Project Associate
Anjana Rajagopalan
Program Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Munawar Irfaan S
Senior Program Associate – Climate Resilience Practice
Research, Data & Impact
Robin Infant Raj Devadoss
Senior Program Research Analyst – Publications Coordinator
Rahul Muralidharan
Program Lead – Research Integrity
Operations
Esli Ayeetus
Associate – Budget Analyst
Development
Shanmugam Darjibrother
Senior Associate - IT Operations
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Aravinda Devaraj
Senior Program Research Analyst — Sustainable Cities and Transport
Manju George
Senior Program Manager – MobiliseHer
Vikas Gotla
Program Communications Associate – Cities
Fathima Husain
Senior Program Associate – Urban Development
Kavichelvan Gowri Kanagavel
Junior Program Associate – Geo Analytics
Arpitha Lakshman
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Sowmya M
Program Associate - Transport
Arvind Manickam
Senior Program Manager – Transport
Arun Manohar
Program Manager – Urban Development
Praseeda Mukundan
Program Manager – Urban Development
Priya Narayanan
Senior Program Manager - Urban Development
Krishna Priya Poroori
Program Associate
Vishal Ramprasad
Program Manager
Tintu Sebastian
Program Manager – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Sudharsan Natraj Sivapiran
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Harshil Suresh
Senior Program Associate - Urban Innovations
Pavithra T S
Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Aparna Vijaykumar
Program Manager – Electric Mobility
Communications
Tanushree Venkatraman
Associate Program Director – Communications
