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.
Climate, Economics and Finance
Varun Agarwal
Program Research Lead
Sai Dinesh K
Program Associate
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Shaima Ahmed
Senior Program Communication Associate – Content Creator
Sonal Ganvir
Junior Program Associate
Parwathy PS
Junior Program Associate
Abhishek Venkitaraman
Senior Program Associate-GIS
Program Experts & Staff
Sanjar Ali
Program Manager- Air Quality
Elezebeth Baiju
Program Associate – Childhood Friendly Cities
Prateek Barapatre
Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Ananya Chakraborty
Senior Program Research Specialist
Heleena Christian
Program Manager – Wind Energy
Chintan Daftardar
Program Head – Transport
Siddharth Edake
Senior Program Manager
Chandana K
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Arun Krishnan
Program Director – Climate Finance
Nupur Kulkarni
Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Rejeet Mathews
Program Director - Urban Development
Gopika Menon
Junior Program Associate–Sustainable Cities & Transport
Deep Ponikar
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport
Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring
Kajal Singh
Junior Program Research Analyst
Siddharth Thyagarajan
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Radha Yadav
Junior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
