Experts & Staff
WRI’s experts are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as food and land use, energy, cities, climate, economics, finance, governance and more. Our more than 2,000+ staff work on the ground in more than a dozen focus countries and with partners in over 50 nations. Contact our media team to arrange an interview with any of our experts.
Program Experts & Staff
Hanna Abate
Program Coordinator, Managing for Results
Iman Abdulwassi Abubaker
Urban Mobility Project Manager, WRI Africa
Zablon Adane
Water Program Associate, WRI Africa
Claudia Adriazola-Steil
Deputy Director, Global Urban Mobility, and Director, Health & Road Safety, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities
Alemayehu Agizew
GIS Analyst, Energy Access Explorer
Agraw Ali
GIS Research Analyst, WRI Africa
Ashwathy Anand
Program Associate, Urban Water Resilience, WRI India
Ettore Arpini
Director for Strategy and Impact, WRI Brasil
Mulubrhan Balehegn
Agriculture and Climate Research Associate II
Tsvetilena Bandakova
Program Manager, Nature Crime Alliance
Angela Bekkers
Head of Communications, WRI Europe
Iryna Bondarenko
Research Associate, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Rocío Campos
Senior Communications and Engagement Manager
Penny Cross
Director of Strategic Communications, FOLU
Bethel Elias Dadebo
Grants and Finance Specialist, WRI Africa
Gerwin De Roy
Events Manager
Shefaali Desai
HR International Manager, Global Human Resources
Berhanu Desta
Global Accounting Director
Sandeep Dutta
Senior Manager, Global Operations
Beakal Fasil
Communications and Engagement Specialist, The New Climate Economy, WRI Africa
Adrián Flores Aguilar
Climate Finance Associate, NDC Partnership Support Unit
Johannes Friedrich
Director of Climate Data
Kalpana Giri, Ph.D (Dr. nat. tech.)
Senior Manager, Global Restoration Research & Strategy
Libby Gladding
Operations Manager, CAEP, NDC Partnership
Jiregna Hirpa
Transport Planner, WRI Africa
Clemens W. Janssen
User Research & Engagement Lead
Jiaying Lin
Research Analyst, Sustainable Transition Center, WRI China
Zac Lowndes-Bull
Senior Development Manager, Government and Multilateral Relations
Christine Luttmer
Project Manager, Country Engagement, NDC Partnership Support Unit
Anne Maassen
Senior Urban Research, Knowledge & Learning Manager, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Dimitris Mentis
Lead, Energy Access Explorer
Kirian Mischke-Reeds
Research Analyst, Raising National Climate Ambition
Solomon Negusse
API Software Engineer, Data Lab
Ryan O'Connor
Knowledge Tools Associate, NDC Partnership
Henk Ovink
Executive Director Global Commission on the Economics of Water
David Pérez-Barbosa
Global Data Coordinator
Danielle Riedl
Research Associate I, WRI U.S.
Akansha Saklani
Data, AI and India Lead, Energy Access Explorer
Sangeetha Sarma
Director of Communications and Engagement
Tina Schneider
Director, Forest Governance and Policy
