Experts & Staff

Leadership

Andrew Steer President and CEO	Manish Bapna Executive Vice President and Managing Director	Steve Barker CFO, VP Finance & Administration
Lailai Li China Country Director	Liz Cook Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development	Robin Murphy Vice President for External Relations
Janet Ranganathan Vice President for Science and Research	Holger Dalkmann Director, EMBARQ	Craig Hanson Director, People & Ecosystems Program
Kirsty Jenkinson Director, Markets & Enterprise Program	Jennifer Morgan Director, Climate and Energy Program	Peter Veit Acting Program Director/Project Manager for the Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative
Shailesh Sreedharan Operations Director, WRI India

Climate & Energy

Jennifer Morgan Director, Climate and Energy Program	Vivek Adhia Senior Associate, WRI India	Paul J. Allen Senior Fellow, US Climate Policy
Nate Aden Research Fellow	Siddarthan Balasubramania Director, Major Emerging Economies Initiative	Priya Barua Associate
Meg Beiter Development Coordinator	Wendi Bevins Research Assistant	Pankaj Bhatia Deputy Program Director & Director, GHG Protocol
Nicholas Bianco Senior Associate	James Bradbury Senior Associate	Benedict Buckley Associate, GHG Protocol
Meg Burton International Objective Coordinator	Sara-Katherine Coxon Objective Coordinator	Cynthia Cummis Deputy Director, GHG Protocol
Yamide Dagnet Senior Associate	Thomas Damassa Senior Associate	Kate DeAngelis Research Assistant
Ayesha Dinshaw Research Analyst	Laura Draucker Senior Associate & Sustainability Manager	Samah Elsayed Research Analyst
Jared Finnegan Research Analyst	Wee Kean Fong Senior Associate	Sarah Forbes Senior Associate
Taryn Fransen Project Director, Open Climate Network	Greg Fuhs Senior Communications Associate	Rebecca Gasper Research Assistant, U.S. Climate Objective
Raquel Gonzalez Financial Manager, MAPT Project	Xiaoqian Jiang Research Analyst	Paul Joffe Senior Foreign Policy Counsel
Benjamin Jones Administrative Coordinator	Kevin Kennedy Director, U.S. Climate Initiative	Benoit Lefevre Senior Associate, Transport and Climate
Kelly Levin Senior Associate	Heather McGray Co-Director, Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative	Kristin Meek Associate
Apurba Mitra Assistant Project Manager, MAPT	Jonathan Moch ChinaFAQs Project Specialist	Michael Obeiter Senior Associate
Tara Parthasarathy Associate	David Rich Senior Associate	Stephen Russell Senior Associate
Johan Schaar Co-Director, Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative	Deborah Seligsohn Principal Advisor, China Climate and Energy Program	Xiaoyu Shi Associate
Neelam Singh Associate	Ranping Song Team Lead, China Climate and Energy Program	Mary Sotos Associate
Amanda Stevens Research Assistant, Sustainability Initiative	Pieter Terpstra Senior Associate	Ashok Kumar Thanikonda Research Analyst, Green Power Market Development Group-India
Dennis Tirpak Principal Advisor	David Waskow Director, International Climate Initiative	Ryan Weber Operations Manager
Lutz Weischer Research Analyst	Joseph Winslow Objective Coordinator	Ailun Yang Senior Associate

EMBARQ (Sustainable Transportation)

Holger Dalkmann Director, EMBARQ	Clayton Lane Chief Operating Officer, EMBARQ	Claudia Adriazola Director, Health & Road Safety Program
Suelen Agraviador Executive Assistant	Aileen Carrigan Senior Associate	Benoit Colin Communications and Marketing Manager, EMBARQ
Erin Cooper Research Analyst, EMBARQ	Larissa Da Silva Operations & Development Manager	Carrie Dellesky Program Coordinator II, EMBARQ
Nicolae Duduta Associate Transport Planner	Tina Duong Development Director, EMBARQ	Luis Gutierrez Latin America Strategic Director
Robin King Urban Development & Accessibility Director	Benoit Lefevre Senior Associate, Transport and Climate	Aaron Minnick Project Coordinator II, Health & Road Safety Program
Pawan Mulukutla Project Manager - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Matthew Raifman Associate, Strategy and Management	Lubaina Rangwala Associate-Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India
Lizzette Soria Sotelo Latin America and FedEx Program Coordinator	Terra Virsilas Program Coordinator II, EMBARQ	Ben Welle Assistant Project Manager, Health and Road Safety
Heshuang Zeng Research Analyst	Jorge Jara Executive Director of EMBARQ Andino	Sybil Settlemyre Project Coordinator, EMBARQ Andino
Toni Lindau Director of EMBARQ Brasil	Madhav Pai Director of EMBARQ India	Vijay Anadkat Fellow, EMBARQ India
Prashanth Bachu Project Manager - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Amit Bhatt Strategy Head - Integrated Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Vivek Chandran Associate – Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India
Nikhil Chaudhary Associate – Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Himadri Das Program Manager – Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Chhavi Dhingra Program Manager - Capacity Building, EMBARQ India
Alok Gupta Chief Operating Officer, EMBARQ India	Umang Jain Associate - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Anjali Mahendra Strategy Head, Research and Practice, EMBARQ India
Sudeept Maiti Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Akshay Mani Project Manager – Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Binoy Mascarenhas Associate - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India
Rejeet Mathews Project Manager - Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Neha Mungekar Associate – Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Ashwin Prabhu Associate - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India
Surya Prakash Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Arnab Roy Associate – Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Sonal Shah Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India
Srikanth Shastry Associate – Integrated Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Anupama Sivan Associate – Operations, EMBARQ India	Sanjay Sridhar Strategy Head – Urban Development and Accessibility; India Country Head – Sustainable and Livable Cities Initiative
Tahira Thekaekara Program Manager - Development, EMBARQ India	Priyanka Vasudevan Associate - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Adriana Lobo Director of EMBARQ Mexico
Arzu Tekir Executive Director, EMBARQ Turkiye	Ali Dogan Salva Associate – Urban Transport, EMBARQ Turkiye	Elif Can Yüce Urban Planner, EMBARQ Türkiye

Governance & Access

Peter Veit Acting Program Director/Project Manager for the Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative	Athena Ballesteros Project Manager of International Financial Flows and Environment Project	Louise Brown Research Analyst
Florence Daviet Co-Manager of the Governance of Forests Initiative	Lalanath de Silva Director, The Access Initiative	Alex Doukas Research Analyst
Catherine Easton Project Coordinator II/Research Assistant	Carole Excell Senior Associate	Lauren Goers Williams Associate
Tao Hu Senior Associate	Bharath Jairaj Senior Associate	Gaia Larsen Associate
Denise Leung Associate	Natalya Lozovaya Program Coordinator II	Sarah Martin Research Analyst
Emily Norford Project Coordinator II	Caitlin O’Donnell Program Coordinator I	Milap Patel Research Assistant
Clifford Polycarp Senior Associate	Stephanie Ratte Project Coordinator II	Candy Schibli Media Designer
Sorina Seeley Project Coordinator I	Roland Widmer Senior Associate	Davida Wood Project Manager of Electricity Governance Initiative
Jesse Worker Associate - The Access Initiative (TAI)	Yingzhen Zhao Research Analyst

Markets & Enterprise

Kirsty Jenkinson Director, Markets & Enterprise Program	Brian T. Carney Program Coordinator II	Giulia Christianson Research Associate
Francis Gassert Research Analyst	Charles Iceland Senior Associate III	Robert Kimball Associate
Tianyi Luo Research Assistant, Aqueduct	Eliot Metzger Senior Associate	Betsy Otto Aqueduct Director
Shilpa Patel Principal Advisor, Climate Finance and the Private Sector Initiative	Alex Perera Director, Renewable Energy Initiatives	Samantha Putt del Pino Director, Sustainable Business Initiatives
Paul Reig Associate	Tien Shiao Senior Associate	Aman Srivastava Research Assistant
Letha Tawney Senior Associate, Utilities of the Future	Theo Trifkovic Program Coordinator	Shally Venugopal Senior Associate

People & Ecosystems

Craig Hanson Director, People & Ecosystems Program	Nigel Sizer Director, Global Forest Initiative	Robert Winterbottom Director, Ecosystem Services Initiative
Ariana Alisjahbana Research Analyst	Francisco Almendra Associate	James Anderson Forests Communications Officer
Kemen Austin Climate and Land Use Research Fellow	Beth Bahs-Ahern Development and Operations Manager	Jennifer Bangoura Project Coordinator
Terry Brncic Central Africa Regional Advisor and Coordinator	Lauretta Burke Senior Associate III	Loretta Cheung Research Analyst/Project Coordinator II
Caitlin Clarke Research Analyst	Crystal Davis Senior Manager, Global Forest Watch 2.0	Sean DeWitt Senior Manager, Forest & Landscape Restoration
Pascal Douard GIS Research Associate	Todd Gartner Senior Associate, Conservation Incentives & Markets	Adam Grant Senior Associate
Erin Gray Research Associate	Peter Hazlewood Director, Ecosystems and Development	Norbert Henninger Senior Associate
Lisa Johnston Project Coordinator II / Research Analyst	Cy Jones Senior Fellow	Lars Laestadius Senior Associate III
Florence Landsberg Research Associate	Mogens Laumand Christensen Senior Fellow	Andrew Leach Research Assistant
Brian Lipinski Associate	Peter Mbile Project Manager, Congo Basin Forests & Climate	Susan Minnemeyer Associate II/GIS Manager
Ruth Nogueron Associate I	Suzanne Ozment Associate	Michelle Perez Senior Associate
Andika Putraditama Outreach Officer	Chris Reij Senior Fellow	Katie Reytar Research Associate
Anne Rosenbarger Graduate Fellow	Mindy Selman Senior Associate	Taryn Staples Financial Coordinator
Matthew Steil Manager, Central Africa Forests	Fred Stolle Senior Associate III	Bertrand Tessa Research Analyst/Program Coordinator
Richard Waite Associate I	Sara Walker Associate	Alyssa Westerman Project Coordinator II, Global Forest Watch 2.0
David Wheeler Senior Fellow	Juan Abeso Ondo Eyang Assistant Coordinator, Equatorial Guinea	Fernando Evuna Mboro Eyang Principal Advisor, Equatorial Guinea
Marcel Ibara Principal Advisor, Republic of Congo	Josiane Kandaoule Principal Advisor, Central African Republic	Jean Sylvestre Makak Assistant Principal Advisor, Gabon
Roger Mambeta Principal Advisor, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	Duclaire Mbouna Principal Advisor, Cameroon	Hugues Bounguendzy Mouidy Principal Advisor, Gabon

WRI China

Lailai Li China Country Director	Xiaomei Tan Deputy China Country Director and Director of China Sustainable & Livable Cities Initiative	Jianwen Bai Accounting, Budget and Compliance Analyst
Wee Kean Fong Senior Associate	Xiaotian Fu Research Analyst to Water Program, China Sustainable and Livable Cities Initiative	Xiaoqian Jiang Research Analyst
Hongpeng Lei Energy Pillar Lead	Jie Meng Assistant to China Office Operations Manager	Ranping Song Team Lead, China Climate and Energy Program
Jing Song Project Coordinator, China Climate and Energy Program	Qinghong Wang Operations Manager and Development Liaison, WRI China	Yamin Wang Communications Officer
Hua Wen Research Analyst	Jiayi Xu Special Assistant to China Country Director	Lulu Xue Research Assistant
Lei Yin Research Analyst, GHG Protocol	Min Yuan Energy Research Analyst	Ting Zhao Project Assistant
Lijin Zhong Senior Associate, China Water Lead	Jingjing Zhu Research Assistant, Climate and Energy China Program	Ziwei Mao Research Analyst, China Sustainable and Livable Cities Initiative Program

WRI India

Shailesh Sreedharan Operations Director, WRI India	Vivek Adhia Senior Associate, WRI India	Bharath Jairaj Senior Associate
Pawan Mulukutla Project Manager - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India	Lubaina Rangwala Associate-Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India	Karishma Shelar Associate, Operations and Project Co-ordination, WRI India
Ashok Kumar Thanikonda Research Analyst, Green Power Market Development Group-India	Sonal Shah Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility, EMBARQ India

World Resources Report

Brian Lipinski Associate

Tim Searchinger Senior Fellow, World Resources Report

Richard Waite Associate I

President & CEO

Andrew Steer President and CEO

Aaron Holdway Research Associate and Board Liaison

Rina Rodriguez Special Assistant to the President

Executive Vice-President & Managing Director

Manish Bapna Executive Vice President and Managing Director	Anisha Anantapadmanabhan Associate for Strategy and Management	Vijay Jagannathan Senior Fellow
Sonya Suter Special Assistant to the Managing Director

International Liaisons

Charles Kent Brazil Lead, Sustainable Cities Initiative

Rachel Biderman Senior Advisor, Brazil

Kerina Wang Management Associate, Global Operations & Sustainable Cities Initiative

Communications, Marketing & External Relations

Robin Murphy Vice President for External Relations	Hyacinth Billings Publications Director	Dave Cooper Creative Director
Christina DeConcini Director of Government Affairs	Laura Lee Dooley Online Engagement Architect and Strategist	Daniel Melling Media Assistant
Michael Oko Director, Strategic Communications & Media	Sarah Parsons Online Editor/Writer	Christine Potochny Director of Online Communications
Nick Price Senior Graphic Designer	Hilary Ross Communications Coordinator	Oretta Tarkhani Director, Event & Conference Services
Lauren Zelin Senior Media Officer

Development

Liz Cook Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development	Emily Averna Program Coordinator, Government Sector	Rich Barnett Director, Individual Giving and Special Events
Andreea Culian Manager, Corporate Consultative Group	Amy D’Avella Program Coordinator II, Corporate Relations	Lindsey Hagan Program Coordinator, Development
Leo Horn-Phathanothai Director for International Cooperation	Lillian Pena Torres Manager, Development Operations (Associate III)	Chris Perceval Director of Corporate Relations
Randall Snodgrass Director, U.S. Government Cooperation	Heather Sullivan Gift Administrator	Brian Tracy Individual Giving Coordinator

Vice-President of Science & Research

Janet Ranganathan Vice President for Science and Research	Daryl Ditz Deputy to the VP for Science and Research	Ashleigh Rich Research and Publications Associate
Emily Schabacker Editor/Writer	David Tomberlin Deputy to Vice-President for Science and Research

Administration

Steve Barker CFO, VP Finance & Administration	Shailesh Sreedharan Operations Director, WRI India	Tweneboa Appiah-Kusi Assistant Controller
Natalie Bushell Revenue Accountant	Karen Clarke-Fuhs HR Assistant	Binaya Dhakal General Ledger Accountant
Cathy Donn Special Assistant to the CFO/Vice President of Administration	Arthur Droe Controller	Ronald Esposito Accounts Payable Specialist
Vivian Fong Human Resources Director	Tonia Garnett Assistant Director, Human Resources	Yi Guo Staff Accountant
Nancy Kiefer Facilities Director and IT Manager	Cen Li General Ledger Accountant	Heather Misicko Benefits Specialist
Sheryl Newkirk Senior Accountant	Arminda Pappas Grants and Contracts Coordinator	Victoria Pursell CRM Specialist
Brandi Reed Receptionist	Kristin Snyder Senior Budget Analyst	Jennifer Stanford Talent Management Consultant
Dawn Strong Office Assistant	Devan Tucker CRM Manager	Elsie Velez Whited Grants and Contracts Director

Library & Information Services

Julie Hussey Librarian

Mary M. Maguire Director of Library Services