Experts & Staff
WRI India brings together 300+ staff and experts who are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as climate, economics and finance, food and land use, energy, governance and more. We work across 20+ states to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities.
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India Executive Team
Bharath Jairaj
Executive Director - Energy
Pawan Mulukutla
Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen
Rama Thoopal
Director, Communications
Sustainable Cities & Transport
Mukti Pradhan
Junior Program Associate – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Program Experts & Staff
Alisha Abraham
Senior Program Associate - Energy
Sripathi Anirudh
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Program Manager - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Pravin Cherukuthota
Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Virajitha Chimalapati
Senior Research Analyst - Sustainable Cities & Transport
Shanmugam Darjibrother
Associate - IT
Sandeep Das
Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Robin Infant Raj Devadoss
Senior Program Research Analyst – Publications Coordinator
Sahana Goswami
Senior Program Manager - Water Resilience
Fathima Husain
Senior Program Associate - Urban Development
Vishvak Kannan
Project Associate
Deepak Sriram Krishnan
Deputy Director - Energy
Vaisakh Suresh Kumar
Senior Program Associate - Energy
Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy
Program Director - Clean Air Action
Sowmya M
Program Associate - Transport
Ramya MA
Dushasana Mahanta
Senior Program Manager - MEL
Arvind Manickam
Senior Program Associate - Transport
Arun Manohar
Senior Program Associate
Rejeet Mathews
Program Director - Urban Development
Praseeda Mukundan
Senior Program Research Associate - Urban Development
Priya Narayanan
Program Manager - Urban Development
Harish Palani
Senior Research Specialist - Energy
Khushi Parakh
Junior Program Associate – Climate Policy
Ranjith Parvathapuram
Senior Manager - Electric Mobility
Krishna Priya Poroori
Program Associate
Achu R Sekhar
Anjana Rajagopalan
Manager - Climate Resilience Practice
Umesh Kumar Sharma Ramamoorthi
Senior Program Research Associate
Vishal Ramprasad
Program Manager
Baalaji Ravichandran
Senior Program Associate – offshore wind
Ashim Roy
Program Lead - Energy Finance
Mitradev Sahoo
Junior Program Associate - Electric Mobility
Shyny Sam
Senior Program Associate - Energy
Tintu Sebastian
Program Manager – Sustainable Cities & Transport
Sidhtharthan Segarin
Program Associate - Monitoring
