Staff

WRI India brings together experts and staff in cities and transport, climate, energy, forests, water, governance, and business. Our experts are available for speaking engagements and interviews in several languages and locations.

Leadership

Madhav Pai

CEO, WRI India

Executive Directors

Jaya Dhindaw

Executive Program Director, Sustainable Cities and Director, WRI India Ross Center
Bharath Jairaj

Executive Director - Energy
Ulka Kelkar

Executive Director - Climate
Pawan Mulukutla

Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Dr. Ruchika Singh

Executive Program Director - Food, Land and Water

Senior Fellows

R. Parasuram

Senior Fellow - Food, Land and Water
Vijay Anadkat

Program Senior Fellow - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Srinivas Alavilli

Program Senior Fellow – Sustainable Cities and Transport

Energy

Deepak Sriram Krishnan

Deputy Director - Energy
Tirthankar Mandal

Associate Director - Energy
Puneet Khandelwal

Head - Utilities & Finance, Energy
Sumedha Malaviya

Head – Building Decarbonization
Harsha Meenawat

Head – Energy and Development
Ashim Roy

Program Lead - Energy Finance
Varun Jyothiprakash

Senior Program Manager
Kartheek NGR

Senior Program Manager – Industrial Decarbonization
Ambuj Adhwaryu

Program Manager - Energy
Heleena Christian

Program Manager - Energy
Lanvin Concessao

Program Manager - Energy
Geetika Gupta

Manager - Energy
Dheeraj Kumar Gupta

Program Manager - Energy
Ahona Datta Gupta

Communications Manager - Energy
Masfick Hazarika

Program Manager – Energy
Rishikesh Mishra

Program Manager - Energy
Krishan Gopal Sharma

Program Manager - Energy
Abhinav Sharma

Program Manager - Energy
Dhilon Subramanian

Program Manager - Energy
Sandhya Sundararagavan

Program Head - Energy Transition
Shikha Anand

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Sripathi Anirudh

Senior Program Research Associate
Rumpa Banerjee

Senior Program Communications Associate
Arundhita Bhanjdeo

Senior Research Specialist - Energy
Abhishek Bhardwaj

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Akshatha Hegde

Senior Associate - Finance and Operations
Nehemia Infimate

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Rohit Khare

Senior Program Research Analyst
Amit Kumar

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Vaisakh Suresh Kumar

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Ijas M A

Senior Research Associate
Shreya Mittal

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Niharika Tagotra

Senior Research Specialist - Energy
Harish Palani

Senior Research Specialist - Energy
Amittosh Pandey

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Ankit Pandey

Senior Program Associate – Industrial Decarboniztaion
Dhriti Pant

Senior Program Associate - MEL
Umesh Kumar Sharma Ramamoorthi

Senior Program Research Associate
Baalaji Ravichandran

Senior Program Associate – offshore wind
Shyny Sam

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Shivani Shah

Senior Communications Manager
Jyoti Sharma

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Rushabh Soni

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Chandana Sasidharan

Program Research Fellow
T.S. Gowthami

Senior Program Associate
Deepak Tewari

Research Fellow - Energy
Himanshu Tyagi

Senior Research Analyst - Energy Program
Mantok Yanlem

Senior Program Associate - Energy
Pursungit Aier

Program Associate - Energy
Rachel Aier

Program Associate - Energy
Bhavana Varma

Program Associate - Energy
Visakha G

Junior Program Associate
Abdul Khalid

Program Associate - Energy
Preeti Kumari

Program Associate
Vaibhav Pahel

Program Associate – Communications

Climate

Ashwini Hingne

Associate Program Director
Saransh Bajpai

Associate Director, Climate
Amitosh Gautam

Senior Manager (MSME)
Mehul Patel

Program Lead - Climate
Prateek Aggarwal

MEL Manager, Climate
Prateek Barapatre

Program Manager – Climate
Pranav Garimella

Program Manager – Climate
Shashidhar Kumar Jha

Manager - Climate
Steffi Olickal

Program Communications Manager
Piyush Tripathi

Manager - Communication, Climate
Varun Agarwal

Senior Project Associate - Climate
Shruti Dayal

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Arpan Golechha

Senior Project Associate
Apoorva Grover

Senior Program Associate - Graphic Design
Niyati Gupta

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Mani Bhushan Jha

Program Manager - Climate
Shreyas Joshi

Senior Program Associate - Communications
Richa

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Priyal Shah

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Faiza Solanki

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Supratheesh T

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Avni Agarwal

Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
Gauri Atre

Program Associate - Climate
Dennis Baby

Junior Program Associate - Climate
Devadathan Biju

Junior Program Associate - Climate
Nivedita Cholayil

Senior Program Associate - Climate
Muskaan Kapoor

Program Associate: Corporate Climate Action & Industrial Decarbonization
Ramya MA

Program Associate - Climate
Roushan Mishra

Junior Program Associate - Climate
Abhijit Namboothiri

Program Associate - Climate
Khushi Parakh

Junior Program Associate – Climate Policy
Aishwarya Pradip

Junior Program Associate - Climate
Kshitij Singh

Program Associate - Climate

Leaders in Climate Change Management (LCCM)

Anubhuti Gupta

Lead Coordinator

Climate Resilience Practice

Bhawna Ahuja

Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Anjana Rajagopalan

Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Vishvak Kannan

Project Associate

Human Resources

Mitali Dohroo

Manager - Human Resources
Chaitra Mehra

Manager - Human Resources
Laveena Lobo

Senior Associate - Human Resources
Dolma Sharma

Associate – Talent Acquisition

Research, Data & Impact

Manu V. Mathai

Director – Research, Data & Impact
Shamindra Nath Roy

Lead – Research, Data & Impact
Robin Infant Raj Devadoss

Senior Program Research Analyst – Publications Coordinator
Deepti Raj

Senior Associate - Research, Data and Impact

Food, Land and Water

Ritoja Basu

Program Head - Food Loss and Food Waste
Srishti Kochhar

Senior Program Manager
Kavita Sharma

Senior Program Manager - Land Accelerator
Siddharth Edake

Senior Program Manager
Dushasana Mahanta

Senior Program Manager - MEL
Itti Aggarwal

Operations Manager - Food Land and Water
Anar Bhatt

Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Rajasweta Datta

Program Manager - Mapping and Monitoring
Meenakshi Kakar

Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Shwetmala Kashyap

Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Shweta Lamba

Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Rajat Pandey

Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Paresh Parab

Program Manager - Restoration Planning and Implementation
Shweta Prajapati

Manager - Communications
Saeed Reza

Program Manager – Restoration Planning and Implementation
Nabajyoti Roy

Program Manager - Restoration Planning and Implementation
Nitya Sharma

Program Manager - Food Loss and Waste
Divya Sharma

Program Manager - Food, Land and Water
Shivangi Arvind

Senior Research Analyst – Sustainable Agriculture
Oindrila Basu

Senior Program Research Analyst
Raghav Srivastava

Senior Program Research Analyst – Landscape Restoration
Seema Yadav

Program Manager - Sustainable Agriculture
Jyoti Yadav

Senior Program Associate - Food, Land and Water
Kritika Gadhvi

Associate - Communications
Sidhtharthan Segarin

Program Associate - Monitoring

Operations

Sonal Karia

Finance Lead
Sarika Dicholkar

Manager - Accounts
Mandeep Kaur

Manager - Facilities & IT
Pooja Kothari

Manager - Finance
Shikha Aggarwal

Senior Associate - Finance
Vandana Chauhan

Senior Associate - Facilities
Harsh Gupta

Senior Associate - Accounts
Shanmugam Darjibrother

Associate - IT

Development

Kavneet Kaur

Senior Manager - Development
Himashree Sarma

Manager - Development
Harshita Wadehra

Manager - Development

Sustainable Cities & Transport

Sudeshna Chatterjee

Program Director - Sustainable Cities and Transport
Rejeet Mathews

Program Director - Urban Development
Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy

Program Director - Clean Air Action
Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta

Associate Director - Urban Development
Sharvari Patki

Program Head - Electric Mobility
Lubaina Rangwala

Program Head - Urban Development
Bina Shetty

Program Head - Spatial Data and Data Analytics
Shrimoyee Bhattacharya

Program Head - Urban Development
Deepti Talpade

Program Lead - Urban Development and Resilience
Rama Thoopal

Program Communications Head - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Pavan Ankonapalli

Program Lead - Urban Development
Dhawal Ashar

Head - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy

Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Nandini Chandrasekaran

Senior Program Manager - Transport
Diksha Choudhary

Lead - Electric Mobility
Chintan Daftardar

Senior Program Manager - Transport
Sahana Goswami

Senior Program Manager - Water Resilience
Chaitanya Kanuri

Associate Director - Electric Mobility
Dr. Parveen Kumar

Program Head - Sustainable Batteries
Ranjith Parvathapuram

Senior Manager - Electric Mobility
Priya Narayanan

Program Manager - Urban Development
Akanksha Aggarwal

Program Manager - Transport
Garima Agrawal

Program Manager – Transport
Paramjeet Chawla

Program Manager, Urban Economist
Kaustubh Chuke

Program Manager – Transport
Prayash Giria

Program Manager – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Azra Khan

Program Manager – Transport
Rohit Lahoti

Program Manager - Urban Development
Neha Lal

Manager - Urban Development
Rajeev Malagi

Program Manager - Urban Development
Anshula Menon

Program Manager - Urban Development
Aloke Mukherjee

Manager - Cities and Transport
Guncha Munjal

Program Manager – Hydrogen
Ankita Rajeshwari

Communications Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Vishal Ramprasad

Program Manager
Rohan Rao

Program Manager – Electric Mobility
Tintu Sebastian

Program Manager – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Bhavay Sharma

Senior Program Manager – Air Quality
Dr. Ashish Sharma

Program Manager – Air Quality
Purva Sharma

Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Laxman Singh

Program Communications Manager - Air Quality
Chetan Sodaye

Program Manager - Transport
Aparna Vijaykumar

Program Manager – Electric Mobility
Qazi Syed Wamiq Ali

Program Manager - Urban Flood Resilience
Kishore Wankhade

Program Manager – Air Quality
Safia Zahid

Communications Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Priya Bansal

Senior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Subzar Bashir

Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Anindita Bhattacharjee

Senior Program Communications Associate - Electric Mobility & Hydrogen
Virajitha Chimalapati

Senior Project Associate - Liveable Neighbourhoods
Komal Daal

Senior Associate – Air Quality
Fathima Husain

Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
Harshita Jamba

Senior Program Associate - Transport
Bhanu Khanna

Senior Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Aswathy KP

Senior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Madhura Kulkarni

Senior Program Associate - Transport
Aarathi Kumar

Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
Sayali Lokare

Senior Program Associate - Flood Resilience
Shruti Maliwar

Senior Project Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Arvind Manickam

Senior Program Associate - Transport
Arun Manohar

Senior Program Associate
Dewal Mishra

Program Manager - Transport
Praseeda Mukundan

Senior Program Research Associate - Urban Development
Anuraag Nallapaneni

Senior Program Associate - Hydrogen
Swati Pathak

Senior Program Communications Associate
Abhinand Gopal Pulijala

Senior Program Communications Associate - Geo Analytics
Mukta Salunkhe

Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
Nileena Sankarankutty

Senior Communications Associate
Ankita Saxena

Senior Program Associate - Sustainable Cities and Transport
Trinayani Sen

Senior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Ojas Shetty

Senior Program Associate - Transport
Pratibha Singh

Senior Program Associate - Transport
Manjari Srivastav

Senior Program Associate - Air Quality
Harshil Suresh

Senior Program Associate - Urban Innovations
Siddharth Thyagarajan

Senior Project Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Rahul Tiwari

Senior Program Associate – Air Quality
Vandana Tyagi

Senior Program Associate - Air Quality
Aprajita Verma

Senior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Sai Ratna Chaitanya Gurugubelli

Senior Research Analyst
Vaibhav Ahuja

Program Associate – Eco City Regions
Sanjar Ali

Program Associate - Air Quality
Avtar Bhalla

Program Associate - Transport
Aashima Bhandari

Program Associate - Transport
Subrata Chakrabarty
Deepshikha Chaudhuri

Junior Program Associate - Communications
Pravin Cherukuthota

Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Sandeep Das

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Paulami De

Junior Program Associate - GeoAnalytics
Anya George

Program Associate - Transport
Sai Ravichandra Gollavilli

Program Associate - Transport
Kanika Gounder

Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Suhani Gupta

Program Associate - Transport
Divya Holani

Program Associate - Transport
Yashaswini Jain

Program Associate - Hydrogen
Amy Rachel Joseph

Program Associate - Transport
Jyoti

Project Associate - GeoAnalytics; Sustainable Cities and Transport
Chandana K

Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Harsha K

Junior Program Associate - GeoAnalytics
Visakha KA

Program Associate - Transport
Himanshi Kapoor

Program Associate - Urban Development
Aditya Khare

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Iranna Koppad

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Soham Kshirsagar

Program Associate - Hydrogen
Sowmya M

Program Associate - Transport
Janhavi Mane

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Abhishek Meshram

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Lalit Mudholkar

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Leona Nunes

Program Research Analyst - Sustainable Cities and Transport
Nikita Pal

Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Riddhi Patel

Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Chaitali Patil

Program Communications Associate
Anushree Patil

Program Associate - Transport
Kshitija Pendharkar

Program Associate - Transport
Manojna Polisetty

Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Krishna Priya Poroori

Program Associate
Sri Pujitha Pukkella

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Himani Rangoonwala

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Linda Regi

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Abhimanyu S

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Mitradev Sahoo

Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Jatin Saxena

Junior Program Associate - Hydrogen
Shabna Seemamu

Program Associate - Urban Development
Arundhati Sen

Program Communications Associate
Arunima Sen

Program Associate - Transport
Utsav Shah

Program Associate - Hydrogen
Neha Shigwan

Program Associate - Urban Climate Resilience
Nitisha Singh

Program Communications Associate - Air Quality
Yash Siroliya

Program Associate - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Pavithra T S

Program Associate - Geo Analytics
Mohit Yadav

Program Associate - Electric Mobility