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.

9 Featured Experts

Program Experts & Staff

Saketan Anand

Restoration Finance and Analysis Intern

Tsvetilena Bandakova

Program Manager, Nature Crime Alliance

Rita M. El Zaghloul

Director, High Ambition Coalition for Nature & People Secretariat

Kalpana Giri, Ph.D (Dr. nat. tech.)

Senior Manager, Global Restoration Research & Strategy

Aarushi Jain

Intern, Restoration Policy Accelerator

Gautam Mathur

Remote Sensing, Data Science Intern

Radhika Rao

Research Associate II, Restoration Finance and Outcome Buyer Engagement, Global Restoration Initiative

Neil Stein

Research and Engagement Associate, TerraFund

Tesfay Woldemariam

GIS Research Associate I