Srishti is a Senior Program Manager with the Food, Land and Water program at WRI India. She manages the Harit Bharat Fund – an initiative that delivers capital and capacity to enterprises and community non-governmental organizations to restore landscapes in India. Her work at the WRI India spans the realms of policy, monitoring, research and innovation, fundraising, and implementation. Srishti is also a Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Ambassador, and was previously Chair of the global Staff Assembly at WRI.

An environmental social scientist by training, Srishti’s consistent endeavor is to bolster the iterative relationship between academic theory and development practice, particularly in the realm of environmental conservation and governance.

She holds an MSc (with Distinction) in Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she was awarded the Institute Silver Medal. Her fieldwork experience in India spans across Assam, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi, with WWF-India, Saevus, Centre for Study of Developing Societies, among others. Her research interests include nature-society relationships in the Anthropocene, decolonial thought and methods, resilience and adaptation to climate change, the role of technologies in natural resource management, and novel methodologies for the increased accessibility of science and academia.

Srishti is an advanced open-water diver and high-altitude trekker, an ardent dog lover, and an amateur wildlife photographer.