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
Samar Das
Senior Program Associate
Arpan Golechha
Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Mayank Hedau
Junior Program Associate – Climate Economics & Finance
Ashwini Hingne
Program Director – Climate Economics & Inclusive Transitions
Sai Dinesh K
Program Associate
Trinayana Kaushik
Senior Program Associate – Climate Economics Finance
Shaurya Rahul Narlanka
Program Manager
Rimi Palmo
Senior Program Associate
David Rajbangshi
Program Manager
Rajit Sengupta
Associate Program Communications Director
Ambar Singh
Junior Program Associate
Climate Resilience Practice
Yogendra Choukiker
Senior Program Associate
Program Experts & Staff
Prateek Aggarwal
Senior Program Manager, MEL, Climate, Economics & Finance
Bhawna Ahuja
Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Saransh Bajpai
Associate Program Director, Climate, Economics & Finance
Aryan Bajpai
Program Associate - Climate, Economics and 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
Ananya Chakraborty
Senior Program Research Specialist
Nivedita Cholayil
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Nidhin Davis
Program Manager - Climate, Economics and Finance
Apoorva Grover
Senior Program Associate - Graphic Design - Climate, Economics and Finance
Samir Jagdish
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Evelin Jose
Program Associate - Climate, Economics and Finance
Shreyas Joshi
Senior Program Associate - Communications - Climate, Economics and Finance
Varun Jyothiprakash
Senior Program Manager – Climate, Economics and Finance
Vishvak Kannan
Senior Program Associate – Climate Resilience Practice
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
Tarandeep Kaur
Senior Program Associate - Climate, Economics and 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
