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
Ulka Kelkar
Executive Program Director - Climate, Economics & Finance
Climate, Economics and Finance
Aadrika
Program Manager – Green Skilling and Green Jobs
Varun Agarwal
Program Research Lead
Aarushi Aggarwal
Senior Program Associate – Climate Finance
Prateek Aggarwal
Senior Program Manager, MEL, Climate, Economics & Finance
Aryan Bajpai
Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Saransh Bajpai
Associate Program Director, Climate, Economics & Finance
Prateek Barapatre
Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Devadathan Biju
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics & Finance
Subrata Chakrabarty
Associate Program Director – Climate, Economics & Finance
Nivedita Cholayil
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Samar Das
Senior Program Associate
Nidhin Davis
Program Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Arpan Golechha
Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Apoorva Grover
Program Visual Communications Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Mayank Hedau
Junior Program Associate – Climate Economics & Finance
Ashwini Hingne
Program Director – Climate Economics & Inclusive Transitions
Samir Jagdish
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Evelin Treesa Jose
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Shreyas Joshi
Program Manager – Communications, Climate, Economics and Finance
Varun Jyothiprakash
Senior Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Sai Dinesh K
Program Associate
Muskaan Kapoor
Program Associate: Corporate Climate Action & Industrial Decarbonization - Climate, Economics and Finance
Saurabh Kataria
Program Manager-Industrial Decarbonization - Climate, Economics and Finance
Tarandeep Kaur
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Trinayana Kaushik
Senior Program Associate – Climate Economics Finance
Mohammed Shoaib Khan
Senior Program Associate – Industrial Decarbonization [MSME] - Climate, Economics and Finance
Smriti Kumble
Senior Program Associate
Neha Misra
Program Lead - Climate, Economics & Finance Program
Vanshika Mittal
Program Associate
Sucheta Mondal
Junior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Meghana Munagala
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Varsha Nair
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Abhijit Namboothiri
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Shaurya Rahul Narlanka
Program Manager
Steffi Olickal
Senior Program Communications Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Rimi Palmo
Senior Program Associate
Mehul Patel
Program Head – GHG Management
Aishwarya Pradip
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics & Finance
David Rajbangshi
Program Manager
