Experts & Staff

WRI brings together nearly 1,900 staff and experts who are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as food and land use, energy, cities, economics, finance, governance and more. Our staff and researchers work globally and in 12 focus countries to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities.

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19 Featured Experts

Program Experts & Staff

Subrata Chakrabarty

Associate Program Director, Climate, WRI India

Ananya Chakraborty

Senior Research Analyst, Climate Resilience Practice

Ananya Chakraborty

Purnanjali Chandra

Project Associate, Urban Water Resilience, WRI India Sustainable Cities

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Anupama Choudhary

Manager, Cognos BI Analyst/Financial Reports

Ahona Datta Gupta

Communications Manager, Energy, WRI India

Ahona Datta Gupta

Roman Dehsabzi

Project Coordinator, Country Engagement

Roman Dehsabzi.

Anamika Dutt

Manager, PMEL, Energy Program, WRI India

Anamika Dutt

Ankita Gangotra

Associate II, Industrial Innovation and Carbon Removal, U.S. Climate Program

Ankita Gangotra

Farid Hakemi

Project Associate, Restoration

Farid Hakemi

Vijay Jagannathan

Senior Fellow, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Tirthankar Mandal

Head, Energy Policy, WRI India

Tirthankar Mandal

Khabir Mirzakhail

Training Manager, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Managing for Results

Khabir Mirzakhail

Mona Nabi

Project and Finance Specialist, Center for Equitable Development

Mona Nabi

Behrouz Nouri

Energy Sector Manager, Science Based Targets initiative

Behrouz Nouri.

Arun Panda

Senior Fellow, Climate Program, WRI India

Arun Panda

Bibhu Panigrahi

Enterprise Architect, Global Operations

Mrinmayee Ray

Operations Administrative Assistant

Mrinmayee Ray.

Devashree Saha

Director, US Clean Energy Economy Program

Devashree Saha

Tarannum Sarwat Sahar

Energy Access Explorer Intern

Tarannum Sarwat Sahar.