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
Dr. Ruchika Singh
Executive Program Director - Food, Land and Water
Food, Land and Water
Chirag Bansal
Senior Program Associate – Food, Land and Water
Payal Phore
Junior Program Associate
Program Experts & Staff
Prem Surya Dharmalingam
Program Research Analyst – Restoration finance
Itti Aggarwal
Operations Manager - Food Land and Water
Shivangi Arvind
Senior Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture
Sampriti Baruah
Program Head - Sustainable Agriculture
Oindrila Basu
Senior Program Research Analyst
Ritoja Basu
Program Head - Food Loss and Food Waste
Anar Bhatt
Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Rajasweta Datta
Program Manager - Mapping and Monitoring
Siddharth Edake
Senior Program Manager
Kritika Gadhvi
Senior Associate – Communications
Srijani Guha
Program Associate – Mapping and Monitoring
Meenakshi Kakar
Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Simranpreet Kaur
Program Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture
Nupur Kulkarni
Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Shweta Lamba
Senior Program Manager – Food, Land and Water
Dushasana Mahanta
Senior Program Manager - MEL
Paresh Parab
Program Manager - Restoration Planning and Implementation
Shweta Prajapati
Program Communications Lead
Saeed Reza
Program Manager – Restoration Planning and Implementation
Nabajyoti Roy
Program Manager - Restoration Planning and Implementation
Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring
Divya Sharma
Program Lead- Food, Land and Water
Nitya Sharma
Senior Program Manager – Food Loss and Waste
Neha Sharma
Program Associate – Food Loss and Waste
Mimansha Singh
Senior Program Associate - Food Loss and Waste
Raghav Srivastava
Senior Program Research Analyst – Landscape Restoration
Drishti Vishwanath
Senior Program Associate — Food Loss and Waste
Jaskiran Warrik
Program Head – Restoration
Seema Yadav
Program Manager - Sustainable Agriculture
Jyoti Yadav
Senior Program Associate - Food, Land and Water
R. Parasuram
Senior Fellow - Food, Land and Water
