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.
Data Lab
Varun Jyothiprakash
Senior Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
India Executive Team
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Jaya Dhindaw
Executive Program Director, Sustainable Cities and Director, WRI India Ross Center
India Executive Office Members
Debkanya Dhar
Head of Strategic Communications – Executive Office
Bianca Kapur
Senior Associate – Innovation
Energy
Rumpa Banerjee
Senior Program Communications Associate – Energy
Arundhita Bhanjdeo
Senior Program Research Specialist - Energy for Equitable Development
Ahona Datta Gupta
Senior Program Communications Manager – Energy
Masfick Hazarika
Program Manager – Energy for Equitable Development
Akshatha Hegde
Program Manager – Energy
Deepak Sriram Krishnan
Deputy Program Director (Energy)
Kartheek NGR
Senior Program Manager – Industrial Decarbonization
Harish Palani
Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy
Dhriti Pant
Senior Program Associate - MEL
Ashim Roy
Program Lead - Energy Finance
Krishan Gopal Sharma
Program Manager - Energy
T.S. Gowthami
Program Manager – Energy
Prashanth Varanasi
Senior Program Manager - Private Sector Engagement Specialist
Climate, Economics and Finance
Devadathan Biju
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics & Finance
Subrata Chakrabarty
Associate Program Director – Climate, Economics & Finance
Samar Das
Senior Program Associate
Arpan Golechha
Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Sai Dinesh K
Program Associate
Smriti Kumble
Senior Program Associate
Sucheta Mondal
Junior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Meghana Munagala
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Shaurya Rahul Narlanka
Program Manager
Nabarun Sengupta
Senior Program Associate – Green Skilling and Green Jobs - Climate, Economics and Finance
Ambar Singh
Junior Program Associate
Ananya Srinivasan
Junior Program Associate - Climate, Economics, and Finance
Climate Resilience Practice
Ananya Chakraborty
Senior Program Research Specialist
Human Resources
Juhi Kumari
Associate – Human Resource
Chaitra Mehra
Senior Manager - Human Resources
Food, Land and Water
Ritoja Basu
Program Head - Food Loss and Food Waste
Oindrila Basu
Senior Program Research Analyst
Rajasweta Datta
Program Manager - Mapping and Monitoring
Srijani Guha
Program Associate – Mapping and Monitoring
Operations
Krittika Basu
Lead – In house Legal Counsel
Development
Shanmugam Darjibrother
Senior Associate - IT Operations
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Rajit Bhat
Program Associate - Transport
