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
Jaya Dhindaw
Executive Program Director, Sustainable Cities and Director, WRI India Ross Center
Sonal Karia
Executive Director - Finance and Legal
Energy
Heleena Christian
Program Manager – Wind Energy
Bhakti G
Senior Program Associate – Private Sector Engagement
Ruchi Kapoor
Senior Program Associate
Preeti Kumari
Senior Program Associate – Energy for Equitable Development
Umesh Kumar Sharma Ramamoorthi
Senior Program Research Associate – Energy
Baalaji Ravichandran
Senior Program Associate – Offshore Wind Energy
Shivani Shah
Senior Program Communications Manager – Energy
Rushabh Soni
Senior Program Associate - Energy
Climate, Economics and Finance
Varun Agarwal
Program Research Lead
Varsha Nair
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Abhijit Namboothiri
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Mehul Patel
Program Head – GHG Management
Priyal Shah
Program Manager - Climate, Economics & Finance
Ambar Singh
Junior Program Associate
Saket Singh
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Pooja Yadav
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Human Resources
Juhi Kumari
Associate – Human Resource
Food, Land and Water
Anar Bhatt
Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Dhawal Ashar
Head - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Yutieka Dalal
Junior Program Associate, Air Quality
Berjis Driver
Senior Program Associate
Bhanu Khanna
Senior Program Associate – Geo Analytics
Dr. Sneha Malhotra
Associate Program Director – Energy Innovation and Tech
Anuraag Nallapaneni
Program Lead - Hydrogen
Nikita Pal
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Kshitija Pendharkar
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Manojna Polisetty
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Deep Ponikar
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport
Lubaina Rangwala
Program Head - Urban Development
Shrey Sanghavi
Senior Program Associate - Hydrogen
Utsav Shah
Program Manager – Hydrogen
Nitisha Singh
Program Communications Associate - Air Quality
Yash Siroliya
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Saurabh Verma
Program Associate – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Vijay Anadkat
Program Senior Fellow
Communications
Jay Desai
