Experts & Staff

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities connects more than 200 experts in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey and the United States to improve quality of life for millions of people in cities.

Global

Ani Dasgupta
Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Tina Duong
Director, Global Strategy & Management
Claudia Adriazola
Director, Health and Road Safety
Victoria A. Beard
Director of Research, World Resources Report
Daniela Facchini
Global Operations Director
Dario Hidalgo
Director Integrated Transport Practice
Robin King
Director of Knowledge Capture and Collaboration
Jennifer Layke
Global Energy Program Director
Betsy Otto
Global Director, Water
Mark Robinson
Director, Governance
Jessica Seddon
Director of Integrated Urban Strategy
Nikola Sobot
Senior Manager, Global Fund Development
Emma Stewart
Director, Urban Efficiency And Climate
Nick Godfrey
Director, Coalition for Urban Transitions
Anne Maassen
Urban Innovation & Finance Associate
Angela Enriquez
Research Associate
Kate Owens
Urban Development Manager
Thet Hein Tun
Transportation Research Analyst
Charles Iceland
Aqueduct Director
Juan-Carlos Altamirano
Economist
Kira Austin
Executive Assistant to the Global Director
Ferzina Banaji
Head Of Communications, New Climate Economy
Anna Bray Sharpin
Urban Planner/Transportation Associate
Lauretta Burke
Senior Associate
Diego Canales
Tools and Data Innovation Associate
Sebastian Castellanos
Energy And Climate Associate
Zoey Cawiezell
Program Coordinator, Urban Mobility
Giulia Christianson
Senior Associate, Finance Center
Seth Contreras
Associate Urban Transport Planner
Andreea Culian
Global Fund Development Manager
Larissa Da Silva
Global Partnerships Manager
Giulia De Giovanni
Programme Coordinator and Research Analyst
Carrie Dellesky
Global Project Management Associate
Ayesha Dinshaw
Associate, Climate Resilience
Valeria Lvovna Gelman
Communications Specialist & Program Coordinator II, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Luke Hagberg
Project Coordinator II
Sonja Heiles
Operations Associate
Shannon Hilsey
Project Coordinator, Building Efficiency Initiative
Vijay Jagannathan
Senior Fellow
Vineet John
Research Analyst/Project Coordinator II
Emily Kaldjian
Communications Manager, Coalition For Urban Transitions
Adna Karabegovic
Project Coordinator, Research Tools And Economics Team
Matthew Kessler-Cleary
Strategy & Management Assistant
Xiangyi Li
Research Analyst I
Luca Lo Re
Energy, Climate and Finance Associate
Eric Mackres
Manager, Building Efficiency Initiative
Anjali Mahendra
Acting Director of Research
Christopher Moon-Miklaucic
Urban Innovation & Finance Research Assistant
Schuyler Null
Communications Associate
Mariana Orloff
Associate II, Urban Development
Thomas Puryear
Program Coordinator, Urban Efficiency & Climate, WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities
Talia Rubnitz
Communications Assistant
Alejandro Schwedhelm
Urban Mobility Associate
Sebastián Varela
Associate, Cities and Transport
Terra Virsilas
Urban Development Associate
Chihsin Wang
Financial Analyst/ Project Coordinator III, Global Projects & Initiatives
Ben Welle
Senior Associate, Health and Road Safety
Michael Westphal
Senior Associate, Sustainable Finance
Debbie Weyl
Manager, Building Efficiency
Ettore Arpini
PPER Intern
Jillian Du
Sustainable Cities Research Assistant
Nikita Luke
Sustainable Transport Research Assistant
Fiona McRaith
Urban Development Intern
Linus Platzer
Research Assistant, Urban Efficiency and Climate, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Brazil

Toni Lindau
Director, Brazil, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Rejane Fernandes
Director, Strategic Relations and Development
Paula Manoela dos Santos
Active Mobility Coordinator
Nívea Oppermann
Urban Development Director
Henrique Evers
Urban Development Coordinator
Rita Tomilin
Project Coordinator
Caroline Borges
Grants and Contracts Analyst
Cristina Albuquerque
Urban Mobility Coordinator
Mariana Barcelos
Urban Mobility Analyst
Luana Betti
Urban Economics Specialist
Fernanda Boscaini
Communications Manager
Lara Caccia
Urban Development Specialist
Patricia Canut da Silva
Administrative Assistant
Paula Cunha Tanscheit
Communications Analyst
Caroline Donatti
Communications Coordinator
Katerina Elias-Trostmann
Senior Research Analyst
Bruno Felin
Communications Specialist
Cíntia Freitas
Institutional Relations Coordinator
Mariana Gil
Visual Communications Specialist
Daniela Lichtler Cassel
Urban Governance Analyst
Letícia Liechavicius
Financial Supervisor
Rafaela Machado
Road Safety Specialist
Débora Neves
Financial Analyst
Marta Obelheiro
Road Safety Coordinator
Francisco Minella Pasqual
Urban Mobility Intern
Felipe Perez Martinez
Institutional Relations Analyst
Guillermo Petzhold
Urban Mobility Specialist
Ariadne Samios
Urban Development Analyst
Cibele Soares da Silva
Administrative Assistant
Daniely Votto
Urban Governance Manager
Leonardo Agostta
Accounting Analyst
Bruno Batista
Urban Development Intern
Virgínia Bergamaschi Tavares
Urban Mobility Analyst
Luiza de Oliveira Schmidt
Cities Coordinator
Diogo Dias Lemos
Analyst
Daniel Hunter
Visual Communication Assistant
Priscila Pacheco
Communications Analyst
Luisa Peixoto
Urban Development Analyst
Berta Pinheiro
Urban Mobility and Climate Specialist
Débora Pinho
Social Media Analyst
Andressa Ribeiro
Road Safety Intern
Bruno Rizzon
Road Safety Analyst
Carlos Eduardo Silva
Urban Mobility Intern
Eduardo Siqueira
Urban Mobility Intern
Matheus Bello Jotz
Urban Mobility Analyst
Fabrício Pietrobelli
Climate and Transport Analyst

China

Wee Kean Fong
Deputy Country Director of WRI China
Miao Hong
Energy Lead
Daizong Liu
China Transport Program Director
Kim Beng Lua
Senior Associate, Health and Road Safety
Xiaoqian Jiang
Research Analyst, Climate, WRI China
Wei Li
Research Analyst/Transport Planner
Shiyong Qiu
Research Assistant, Sustainable Cities
Zhufang Shi
Project Coordinator, WRI China Sustainable Cities
Su Song
Research Associate
Yuan Wang
Research Assistant And Program Coordinator, Water, WRI China
Ying Wang
Research Associate
Wenyi Xi
Research Assistant, Climate, WRI China
Lulu Xue
Research Associate, WRI China
Fei Ye
Communications Officer
Min Yuan
Research Associate, Energy, WRI China
Mofan Zhang
Research Assistant, Energy, WRI China
Jing Zhao
Research Analyst
Ting Zhao
Project Coordinator, WRI China Sustainable Cities
Xiaotian Fu
Associate, Water Program/Sustainable Cities, WRI China
Hui Jiang
Research Assistant, WRI China Sustainable Cities
Lu Lu
Research Analyst, Transport Program, WRI China

India

O.P. Agarwal
CEO, WRI India
Lailai Li
Director, WRI China
Madhav Pai
Director, India, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Amit Bhatt
Strategy Head - Urban Transport
Tahira Thekaekara
Strategy Head - Institutional Development
Sarika Panda Bhatt
Manager - Cities And Transport, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Nandini Chandrasekaran
Manager - Capacity Building
Dnyanada Deshpande
Strategy Head - Communications
Vijay Anadkat
Fellow - Urban Transport
Dhawal Ashar
Senior Project Associate - Urban Transport
Prashanth Kumar Bachu
Project Manager – Urban Transport
Jyot Chadha
Global Lead – New Sustainable Mobility
Radha Chanchani
Managing Associate - Research and Practice
Chhavi Dhingra
Manager – Sustainable Transport
Prayash Giria
Senior Project Associate - Capacity Building
Sahana Goswami
Senior Project Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility
Tanushri Gupte
Executive Assistant to Director
Chaitanya Kanuri
Research Analyst, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Sonal Karia
Senior Project Associate – Operations, WRI India
Azra Khan
Project Associate - Cities and Transport
Divya Kottadiel
Manager – Marketing and Communications
Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy
Managing Associate - Urban Development And Accessibility
Sudeept Maiti
Senior Project Associate – Urban Development and Accessibility
Rajeev Malagi
Project Associate, Urban Development and Accessibility
Binoy Mascarenhas
Manager - Urban Transport
Rejeet Mathews
Manager - Urban Development and Accessibility
Tanuka Mukherjee
Associate - Marketing And Communications, WRI India
Pawan Mulukutla
Manager – Sustainable Transport
Surya Prakash
Managing Associate - Urban Development and Accessibility
Anand Ramachandran
Project Associate, Operations
Vishal Ramprasad
Senior Project Associate
Lubaina Rangwala
Managing Associate, Climate Resilience
Srikanth Shastry
Principal Associate, Urban Transport, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Snehil Sinha
Senior Associate – Cities And Transport, WRI India
Priyanka Sulkhlan
Senior Project Associate, Cities & Transport, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Rohit Tak
Senior Project Associate, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Roshni Thomas
Project Associate - Institutional Development, WRI India
Roshan Toshniwal
Senior Associate, Research and Practice
Aanal Trivedi
Personal Assistant To CEO, WRI India
Priyanka Vasudevan
Senior Project Associate, Urban Transport
Sunita Vaswani
Senior Project Associate – Operations, WRI India Sustainable Cities
Aparna Vijaykumar
Project Associate - Urban Transport & Road Safety
Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta
Manager, Sustainable Cities
Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
Senior Project Associate
Bibhu Panigrahi
Enterprise Knowledge Manager