Dr. Prathna TC

Personal Experience

Dr. Prathna is a Program Manager with Urban Water Resilience at the World Resources Institute, India. In this role, she is leading projects and research work that will solve critical urban water challenges in India such as citywide inclusive and resilient access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) service provisioning, water sensitive urban design and planning, rejuvenation of urban water bodies, urban water resilience, onsite implementation of Nature-based Solutions, and outreach and engagement with diverse group of stakeholders such as governments, private sector, civic groups, academia, and other practitioners. Prathna has over 9 years of experience in working on water projects through her earlier employments, particularly with the Goverment of NCT of Delhi and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands.
She has technical competence and experience in fabrication of Point on Use drinking water treatment systems, study of environmental fate and behavior of engineered nanoparticles in aquatic ecosystems, design of decentralized wastewater treatment systems and reuse using Nature-based Solutions. Prathna holds a Master’s in Biotechnology and a PhD in Nanobiotechnology. She has completed three Post-Doctoral Fellowships from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mohali and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands and was the recipient of the prestigious Experienced Water Post Doctorate fellowship from UNESCO-IHE. Prathna has more than thirty publications in peer reviewed international journals with an h-index of 17.
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Aakash Malik

Personal Experience

Aakash Malik works as a GIS and Remote Sensing Data Analyst in the Urban Water Resilience practice of Sustainable Cities and Transport program. He supports the Urban Water Resilience program with collecting, analyzing and visualizing the GIS and remote sensing data as well as researching on image processing, mapping platforms and dashboards as per project requirements. His work also revolves around doing programming with open-source software packages like python and java-script (in google earth engine) to extract primary and secondary datasets.

Prior to joining WRI India, Aakash worked on Field data collection and GIS analysis for lake restoration, solid waste management and decentralized wastewater treatment projects.

Aakash holds a B.E. degree in Civil Engineering from LDRP College of Engineering (affiliated to Gujarat Technological University) and a master’s in Geomatics from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. He has also completed his master’s thesis from Hochschule für Technik (HFT) Stuttgart, Germany.

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Ayushi Trivedi

Personal Experience

Ayushi is a Research Analyst II with the Gender Equity Practice housed within the Center for Equitable Development at WRI. In this role, she supports deep dive integration of gender and social equity considerations in projects across sectors such as water, forests, urban mobility, nature-based solutions, and climate action. At WRI, her projects focused on exploring gender roles in natural resource management, gender and social equity as a pathway to improved sustainability, promoting inclusive and equitable climate policies, and identifying social datasets for WRI’s flagship data tools like Global Forest Watch and Aqueduct.

Some of her recent projects include publishing social equity guidelines for city-level nature-based solutions policies and projects; training staff on gender and social equity considerations related to environmental sectors; providing recommendations to the government of Republic of the Marshall Islands on integration of gender and human rights in their climate mitigation policies; and publishing research on the linkages between gender, water, and human security.

Ayushi holds a MA degree in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Economics from the University of London..

She has worked with International Development Enterprises (iDE) as a graduate consultant in Vietnam and Washington DC, on a project aiming to extend the availability of low-cost water filtration services in rural Vietnam. She has also completed research projects with various public and private sector development organizations in India, conducting field work and desk research on issues relating to urban development, employment generation, gender equity and public health. Her experience and education have honed her proficiency in quantitative and qualitative research methods, including conducting gender and social analyses, stakeholder engagement, statistical data analyses and facilitating training.

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Ayesha Dinshaw

Personal Experience

Ayesha Dinshaw is a Program Manager with the Climate Resilience Practice. Within Climate Resilience Practice, she has focused on locally-led adaptation, urban climate resilience, monitoring and evaluation, and mainstreaming adaptation into development programs and plans. She has contributed to the Global Commission on Adaptation and the World Resources Report on creating a sustainable food future. Before joining WRI, Ayesha worked at a renewable energy organization called Native Energy, and interned with HSBC India’s corporate sustainability department in Mumbai and the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi. While earning her graduate degree she provided analysis to the Somerville Community Corporation on program evaluation and worked with the Tufts Institute of the Environment. Ayesha holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University, where her thesis explored the role of corporate social responsibility in building adaptive capacity.
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