Vaisakh Suresh Kumar
Senior Program Associate - Energy

Vaisakh Suresh is a Senior Program Associate with the Energy Program at WRI India. His primary area of work involves tracking emerging technologies and policies in the field of renewables. He also assists the team with research and analysis on the sustainable energy transformation of different states. Prior to joining WRI India, Vaisakh worked as an engineer at Defiance Technologies, Bengaluru, on projects involving the analysis of primary aircraft structures.
During his post graduate program at IIT Madras, Vaisakh worked extensively on the ground-up design and development of wind turbines suitable for deployment at regions with lower winds. He also holds a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.
Hailing from Kerala, Vaisakh enjoys swimming, boating, long drives and good food.