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
Gagandeep Bajwa
Director – Human Resources, WRI India
Kavneet Kaur
Head – Development
Sonal Karia
Executive Director - Finance and Legal
Climate, Economics and Finance
Aarushi Aggarwal
Senior Program Associate – Climate Finance
Ambar Singh
Junior Program Associate
Human Resources
Mitali Dohroo
Senior Manager - Human Resources
Dolma Sharma
Senior Associate – Talent Acquisition
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Aashima Bhandari
Senior Program Associate - Transport
Yutieka Dalal
Junior Program Associate, Air Quality
Berjis Driver
Senior Program Associate
Kapil Kumar
Senior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities and Transport
Shrey Sanghavi
Senior Program Associate - Hydrogen
Program Experts & Staff
Harpreet Singh Arora
Program Head – Urbanist, Economic Development
Dhawal Ashar
Head - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Avtar Bhalla
Program Associate - Transport
Abhishek Bhardwaj
Program Manager – Energy
Anar Bhatt
Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Heleena Christian
Program Manager – Wind Energy
Jay Desai
Bhakti G
Senior Program Associate – Private Sector Engagement
Harshita Jamba
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities and Transport
Ruchi Kapoor
Senior Program Associate
Himanshi Kapoor
Program Associate - Urban Development
Saurabh Kataria
Program Manager-Industrial Decarbonization - Climate, Economics and Finance
Simranpreet Kaur
Program Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture
Tarandeep Kaur
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Tarandeep Kaur
Senior Program Associate – Climate, Economics and Finance
Mandeep Kaur
Manager - Facilities & IT
Bhanu Khanna
Senior Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Srishti Kochhar
Program Lead – Strategy and Program Management, Energy
Dr. Sneha Malhotra
Associate Program Director – Energy Innovation and Tech
Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta
Associate Director - Urban Development
Varsha Nair
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Abhijit Namboothiri
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Nikita Pal
Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Mehul Patel
Program Head – GHG Management
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
