People

R K Prabhavathy, Founder Trustee

Prabha has a masters degree in mathematics and is currently working as a banker. She is associated with Vasudha Foundation as a Founding Trustee Member and also advises the organisation on financial and banking matters.

Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Founder Trustee and Chief Functionary(CEO)

Srinivas Krishnaswamy, an economist by training, has over a decade of experience working on the issues of economic reforms, sustainable development and the environment. He set up Vasudha Foundation in January 2010, with an aim to promote environment -friendly, socially just and sustainable models of development by focusing on alternative technologies and lifestyle solutions. The foundation is currently working on a wide range of projects around renewable energy, energy efficiency and policy related campaigns, and lobbies both at the national and international level, while promoting green and alternative technologies at the grassroots level creating the crucial link between energy and poverty alleviationIn a short span of four years, Srinivas helped steer Vasudha Foundation in implementing a wide range of projects that include facilitating a few states in the preparation of their State Climate Action Plans, preparing a detailed institutional strengthening plan for the nodal agency implementing the State Climate Action Plan of Madhya Pradesh, which has been accepted by the Madhya Pradesh Government and is being implemented.

V. Subramanian, IAS (Retd), Secretary General, Indian Wind Energy Association

Shri. V. Subramanian retired from the Indian Administrative Service from the post of Secretary to the Government in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. He has a rich and varied experience in Finance, Aviation, Tourism, Power and Labour. Subramanian advices and mentors the Renewable Energy and Energy Access Programmes of Vasudha Foundation.

Raman Mehta, (Ex-officio – Programme Director)

Raman Mehta has worked on different facets of sustainable development, climate change and natural resources management during his career. He currently focusses on issues relating to equity in the context of climate change, integration of climate change concerns into development strategies, plans and programmes in India, and how to overcome barriers in accelerating the deployment of renewable energy sources in the country. In the past, he has worked in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, World Wide Fund for Nature – India, ActionAid – India and the British High Commission/Department for International Development. He has been involved in several research efforts and has a long list of reports and publications to his credit.

Nambi Appadurai

Dr. Nambi Appadurai currently serves as the Director & Strategy Head of the Climate Resilience Practice of World Resources Institute (WRI) India. His experience in the social development sector spans over two decades. His professional experience and interests intersects the areas of sustainable development, natural resources management, climate risk management, resilience and environmental policy. Dr. Nambi has a wide range of research and project management experience at the international, national and sub-national levels. Most of his work is focused on building community-based resilience to climate change in the Asian and African contexts.

His international career includes stints with the World Bank, United Nations Environment Program, Asian Development Bank and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). He served as the Director of the Climate change program at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation before joining WRI. In the past, Dr. Nambi served as a member of the Official Indian delegation to UNFCCC Conference of Parties’ meetings and represented India in climate negotiations. He served as an expert member of several scientific committees constituted by various Ministries of Government of India and State governments. He has also served as a reviewer for the IPCC Assessment reports. He currently serves as an expert member of the high-level advisory committee constituted by the Chief-minister of Tamil Nādu to mitigate floods in Chennai and the chair of the Advisory committee of the GEF Small Grants Program.

He has a doctoral degree in Public Policy from the Maxwell school of Citizenship & Public Affairs of Syracuse University, New York and two post-graduate degrees one in Development Studies from Cambridge University, U.K and the other in Public Management from University of Madras. He is a member of many professional associations and has published widely on development and environmental issues and won several awards in the fields of social research and environment.

Nidhi Pundhir, Expert, Child Rights

Nidhi Pundhir brings over 15 years of experience and expertise in the area of “Child Rights”, ranging from strategic program development, program management and advocacy, research and networking. She has been associated with a wide range of Internationally renowned organisations that work on “Child Rights” amongst others such as Save the Children, UK, SOS Children’s Villages International Continental Office for Asia and is currently associated as International Program Advisor, Plan-International, UK.

Nidhi has a Masters in Hospital and Health Management from the Indian Institute for Health Management and Research, Jaipur and an M.Phil in Hospital and Health Systems Management from the Birla Institute for Technological Sciences, Pilani.

She advices us on on developing programmes on Energy and Climate Change which is Children sensitive. She also plays a proactive role in helping us evolve overall Governance Structure for the young Foundation.

Smitha Kamath, Expert, Sustainable Development

A wildlife & environment enthusiast and a staunch believer in Sustainable development being critical for us to retain ecological balance for the health and equitable well being of our and future generations from whom we have borrowed this ecosystem.

She has been on the senior management team of Global Environmental NGO managing organization development.

Studying Environmental law fuelled her passion for exploring structured solutions to integrate Ecological Intelligence with sustainability strategies. After 16 years post engineering career with IT industry driving business transformation initiatives she set up the ‘sustainability solutions’ practice to ICT (information communication & technology) to enable sustainability strategies to effectively minimise ecological footprint of customer organizations.

Smitha has been involved into two key areas:

ICT enabling corporate sustainability program through energy efficiency engineering solutions, Product Governance and Compliance with Lifecycle management tools, business intelligence and predictive analytics to manage the sustainability goals.

E-governance projects / Public private partnerships – to enable sustainable development of region.

She is currently engaged in exploring sustainable development approach for the developing economies around equitable access to resources and accounting for ecosystem and biodiversity. She advices Vasudha Foundation on precisely these areas.

Abhishek Sharma

Accounts Officer

Aishwarya Sharma Aishwarya Sharma

Senior Policy Officer

Ajay Prajapati Ajay Prajapati

IT Officer

Akhilesh Mahadevan

Policy Officer - Electric Mobility

Dr Akinchan Singhai

Senior Manager, GIS

Aleena Thomas

Policy Officer - Climate

Aman Kumar

Assistant Manager - Graphic Design

Amar Tomar

Accounts Manager

Amit Yadav

Manager, Research

Dr. Anjali Jain

Senior Manager Energy- Modelling

Anoop Arora

Senior Events and Programme Coordinator

Anu Rajrana

Associate, Strategic Outreach & Communication

Ashu Rastogi

Research Officer, Energy and Power

Atul Paun

Associate Director - Climate Finance

Atul Sharma

Policy Officer - Renewable Energy

Debarati Dey

Policy Officer – Clean Energy

Devina Kuttappa

Senior Policy Officer

Fathima Saila S

Policy Officer

Gourav Panchal

GIS Officer

Gunjan Chawla

Human Resources Officer

Harneet Kaur

Research & Policy Officer

Jaideep Saraswat

Associate Director- Clean Power, Electric Mobility and Emerging Technologies

Kriti Luthra

Policy Officer

Manoj Kumar

Office Assistant

Mekhala Sastry

Assistant Manager - Climate Change

Mohit Jane

Senior Policy Officer

Mohit Mishra

Manager Finance

Monika Chakraborty

Assistant Manager-Climate Policy

Naresh Mehra

Associate Graphic Design

Naveen Kumar

Senior Advisor - Outreach, Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement

Nehal Gautam

Assistant Manager-Climate Policy

Nikhil Mall

Senior Manager - Clean Energy and Power Sector

Nitin Bajpai

Manager - Energy Transition

Parul Babbar

Assistant Manager - Energy

Preethi Bethmangalkar

CFO and Climate Finance Consultant

Dr. Preeti Singh

Senior Advisor-Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement - Climate and Energy

Prince Malla

Assistant Researcher

Priya Kalia

Associate Director-Strategic Outreach and Communications

Rachit Mathur

Assistant Director – Finance

Raghav Pachouri

Associate Director- Low Carbon Pathways and Modelling

Rahul Patidar

Senior Manager - Energy and Power Sector

Rahul KP

Manager, Climate Change

Raman Mehta

Policy/Programme Head

Rini Dutt

Associate Director – Climate Policy

Riya Sethia

Assistant Manager - Climate

Rohin Kumar

Manager, Strategic Outreach & Communication

Dr Sachidananda Satapathy

Senior Advisor

Sana Khan

Policy Officer - Energy

Santosh Kumar Singh

Manager - Graphic Design

Sasadhar Roy

Assistant Manager, Graphic Design

Shivika Solanki

Senior Manager- Climate Change

Shubham Thakare

Senior Manager- Power System Modelling

Sonam Sinha

Assistant Manager - Energy

Srinivas Krishnaswamy

Chief Executive officer

Dr S.R.K. Varshney

Senior Advisor

Swati Bansal

Senior Manager- Strategic Outreach and Communications

Swati Gupta

Senior Policy Officer - Climate Policy

Tanyata Dhiman

Research/Policy Officer

Dr. Tejaswini Eregowda

Senior Manager - Climate

Tushar Katiyar

Research/Policy Officer

Varun BR

Manager - Power Sector

Vasundhra Khanal

Assistant Researcher

Vasundhra Singh

Policy Officer - Climate

Vikas Kumar

Policy Officer - Energy

Vrinda Gupta

Associate Director – Energy Transition

Vrinda Vijayan

Senior Policy Officer - Climate Policy

Yogita Kumari

Policy Officer - Electric Mobility

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