Malavika Neurekar is a Senior Research Analyst with the Cities Program at WRI India. She is part of the India Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) team.

Before joining WRI, Malavika worked as a journalist at Scroll and Hindustan Times. She has also worked as a Communications Associate at the global social impact consultancy Dalberg Advisors. She has been a researcher at Land Conflict Watch, where she has covered conflicts relating to infrastructure and natural resource extraction in Goa.

Malavika holds a Bachelor's degree in Literary and Cultural Studies and International Studies from FLAME University, and a Master's degree in Development from Azim Premji University.