Tirthankar Mandal is an Associate Director with Energy Policy in the Energy program at WRI India. He leads the energy policy portfolio and contributes to national policymaking by bringing evidence and insights from the Energy program’s work across energy for development, clean energy, India’s energy transition and urban energy.

Tirthankar comes to World Resources Institute, India, with extensive experience in clean energy, climate change, and development policy analysis. Before this, he worked as a policy expert in organizations like Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India). His blogs and articles on clean energy and rooftop solar in India are widely published in popular online and print mediums.

An economist by training, Tirthankar holds an M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Originally from Kolkata, he is currently based out of Delhi. In his spare time, Tirthankar loves to read Bengali stories and visit less popular Himalayan spots and be with nature.