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
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
Akshatha Hegde
Program Manager – Energy
Deepak Sriram Krishnan
Deputy Program Director (Energy)
Harish Palani
Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy
Dhriti Pant
Senior Program Associate - MEL
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
Devadathan Biju
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics & Finance
Nidhin Davis
Program Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Sai Dinesh K
Program Associate
Mohammed Shoaib Khan
Senior Program Associate – Industrial Decarbonization [MSME] - Climate, Economics and Finance
Smriti Kumble
Senior Program Associate
Aparna Ramanathan
Senior Program Associate – Industrial Decarbonization - Climate, Economics and Finance
Ananya Srinivasan
Junior Program Associate - Climate, Economics, and Finance
Climate Resilience Practice
Vishvak Kannan
Senior Program Associate – Climate Resilience Practice
Vishvak Kannan
Project Associate
Anjana Rajagopalan
Program Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Munawar Irfaan S
Senior Program Associate – Climate Resilience Practice
Vivek Venkataramani
Associate Director – Climate Resilience Practice
Human Resources
Chaitra Mehra
Senior Manager - Human Resources
Research, Data & Impact
Robin Infant Raj Devadoss
Senior Program Research Analyst – Publications Coordinator
Rahul Muralidharan
Program Lead – Research Integrity
Food, Land and Water
Prem Surya Dharmalingam
Program Research Analyst – Restoration finance
Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring
Operations
Esli Ayeetus
Associate – Budget Analyst
Development
Shanmugam Darjibrother
Senior Associate - IT Operations
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Elezebeth Baiju
Program Associate – Childhood Friendly Cities
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Rajit Bhat
Program Associate - Transport
Anindita Bhattacharjee
Program Communications Manager - Electric Mobility & Hydrogen
Virajitha Chimalapati
Senior Research Analyst - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Aravinda Devaraj
Senior Program Research Analyst — Sustainable Cities and Transport
Manju George
Senior Program Manager – MobiliseHer
