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
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Elezebeth Baiju
Program Associate – Childhood Friendly Cities
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Virajitha Chimalapati
Senior Research Analyst - 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
Arun Krishnan
Program Director – Climate Finance
Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy
Program Director - Clean Air Action
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
Rejeet Mathews
Program Director - Urban Development
Gopika Menon
Junior Program Associate–Sustainable Cities & Transport
Praseeda Mukundan
Program Manager – Urban Development
Priya Narayanan
Senior Program Manager - Urban Development
Krishna Priya Poroori
Program Associate
Achu R Sekhar
Program Manager – Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience
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
Siddharth Thyagarajan
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Abhishek Venkitaraman
Senior Program Associate-GIS
Aparna Vijaykumar
Program Manager – Electric Mobility
