Claudia Adriazola-Steil
Deputy Director, Global Urban Mobility, and Director, Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities
Experts & Staff
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Program Experts & Staff
Ashwathy Anand
Program Associate, Urban Water Resilience, WRI India
Ettore Arpini
Program Management Specialist, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Zhanar Atiyeva
Grants and Finance Specialist, Climate Resilience
Tsvetilena Bandakova
Program Manager, Nature Crime Alliance
Isabel Bartmann
Grants & Finance Specialist, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Angela Bekkers
Head of Communications, WRI Europe
Romeo Bertolini
Deputy Director, Head of Bonn office, NDC Partnership
Ekin Birol
Research Integrity Lead
Rocío Campos
Communications Manager, Center for Equitable Development
Mario Daud Neto
G&C Analyst, WRI Brasil
Shefaali Desai
HR International Manager, Global Human Resources
Adrián Flores Aguilar
Climate Finance Associate, NDC Partnership Support Unit
Claudio Forner
Senior Associate, Climate Diplomacy
Johannes Friedrich
Director of Climate Data
Kalpana Giri
Senior Manager, Social Equity, Global Restoration
Alexandre Grassigny
Project Coordinator Outreach, NDC Partnership
Thiago Guimarães
Senior Manager, Research, Data, and Innovation, WRI Brasil
Sandy Henkes
Project Coordinator & Team Administrator, Food Program
Bekah Holloway
International Office Liaison, Strategy and Development Manager
Valerie Laxton
Senior Associate, Development Finance Institutions, Finance Center
Maria Lemos González
Associate II, International Climate Action
Ramona Liberoff
Executive Director, PACE
Jiaying Lin
Research Analyst, WRI China Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Christine Luttmer
Project Specialist, Country Engagement Support, South Africa
Anne Maassen
Senior Manager, Urban Transformation Insights & Partnerships / Global Lead, WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Srikant Mahanty
Manager, Internal Communications
Dimitris Mentis
Lead, Energy Access Explorer
Ryan O’Connor
Research Analyst, Climate Resilience Practice
David Pérez-Barbosa
Mobility and Road Safety Advisor, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Danielle Riedl
Research Analyst II, Industrial Innovation & Carbon Removal
Sangeetha Sarma
Head of Communications, P4G
Tina Schneider
Deputy Director, Forest Legality Initiative
Jannik Schulz
Development Intern
Alejandro Schwedhelm
Urban Mobility Associate, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Howard Shih
Senior Associate, Science Based Targets initiative
Alex Simpkins
Communications Coordinator, New Climate Economy
Martin Sommerschuh
Program Manager, Land & Carbon Lab Summit
Yulia Stange
Director, Nature Crime Alliance
Sebastian Sterl
Senior Researcher, Clean Energy Transitions, WRI Africa
