Claudia Adriazola-Steil
Acting Director, Urban Mobility, and Director, Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities
Experts & Staff
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42 Featured Experts
Program Experts & Staff
Varun Agarwal
Senior Project Associate, Climate, WRI India
Ettore Arpini
Program Management Specialist, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Isabel Bartmann
Grants & Finance Specialist, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Romeo Bertolini
Deputy Director, Head of Bonn office, NDC Partnership
Rocío Campos
Communications Manager, Center for Equitable Development
Mario Daud Neto
G&C Analyst, WRI Brasil
Janneke de Vries
Director European Partnerships and Head of the Europe regional Office in The Hague
Shefaali Desai
HR International Manager, Global Human Resources
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
Himangana Gupta
Manager, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, WRI India
Bekah Holloway
International Office Liaison, Strategy and Development Manager
Esben Lunde Larsen
Director, WRI Faith and Sustainability
Valerie Laxton
Senior Associate, Development Finance Institutions, Finance Center
Maria Lemos González
Associate II, International Climate Action
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
Dimitris Mentis
Lead, Energy Access Explorer
Sonny Mumbunan
Lead Environmental Economist, WRI Indonesia
Ryan O’Connor
Climate Resilience Fellow
David Pérez-Barbosa
Mobility and Road Safety Advisor, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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
Research Associate, Science Based Targets Initiative
Alex Simpkins
Communications Coordinator, New Climate Economy
Yulia Stange
Senior Manager, Global Alliance to End Environmental Crime
Jake Stockman
GIS Research Assistant, Energy Access Explorer
Stefanie Tye
Research Associate, Climate Resilience Practice
Emily van Bronkhorst
Operations Manager, Development
Rogier van den Berg
Acting Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Leandro Vigna
Data Partnerships & Outreach Manager
Namitha Vivek
Country Engagement Project Coordinator, NDC Partnership
Lea Voigt
Intern, WRI Europe
Zachary Wandalowski
Communications Intern, UrbanShift, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
