Governance

Juan Pablo Martínez

Analyst

Juan Pablo Martínez is a policy analyst at the Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx) who specialises in critical minerals, as well as emerging markets and developing economies. His work focuses on the economic and physical implications of transitioning to a low-carbon economy.

Nidhi Srivastava

Law and Policy Consultant (Independent)

Nidhi has 20 years of research, consultancy, and teaching experience focused on natural resources, especially energy and minerals. She has worked with the UN, Government of India, think tanks, and leading research institutes, providing expertise on legal frameworks, ownership, trade, and social/environmental impacts of minerals - including those crucial for the energy transition. Her background anchors the consortium’s work in legal rigor and multidisciplinary policy perspectives.

Saloni Sachdeva

Saloni Sachdeva Michael is an Energy Specialist, India Clean Energy Transition at IEEFA. Saloni focuses on accelerating and sustaining the clean energy transition through policy, technology, and financial interventions. She has worked with national and several state level organisations including energy departments, distribution companies, think tanks and civil society organisations to understand the pulse of the Indian power sector.

Debajit Palit

Centre Head, Centre for Climate Change and Energy Transition, Chintan Research Foundation

Dr. Palit has 28 years’ experience in energy transition, renewable energy policy, critical minerals, and people-centric transition. He has held leadership and technical roles influencing the design and rollout of energy and mineral policy, and supports the consortium’s mission for a sustainable and inclusive approach to India’s critical minerals strategy.

Meheli Roy Choudhury

Research Consultant, Centre for Climate Change and Energy Transition, Chintan Research Foundation

Meheli has 2.5 years’ experience and focuses on energy transition, critical minerals, people-centric transition, and electric mobility. Her work bridges technical research with policy relevance, supporting the consortium’s mission on equitable, forward-looking approaches in the clean energy and critical minerals sectors.

Amrita Goldar

Senior Fellow and Thematic Lead, Climate Change, Urbanisation and Sustainability (CCUS), Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) With 18 years of experience, her expertise spans circular economy, trade modelling, and waste input-output modelling. Dr. Goldar’s research and leadership contribute significantly to ICRIER’s policy and analytical work on sustainability, resource efficiency, and system transitions in India’s evolving economic landscape.

Ankit Pandey

Senior Strategist, Energy Transition cell, Forum for the Future

Ankit brings 7 years of experience, specializing in responsible and just critical-minerals supply chains, circularity, high-value recycling systems for mineral security, and mineral–energy transition policy and governance. He is deeply engaged with advancing clean energy pathways and critical resource management through his strategic and research roles at the organization.

Ms. Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Shalini Goyal Bhalla is a leading expert in the field of circular economy and sustainability. She is the Founder and MD of International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE), a leading Indian think tank that promotes adoption of circular economy practices both nationally and globally. Author of India’s first book, she got Circular economy embedded in formal education in India. She is the editor of India’s first Journal on Circular economy that promotes research, innovation and policy.

Karthik Bansal

Karthik is a Research Associate at CSEP. He has a degree in Law from School of Law, Christ University Bangalore. Prior to joining CSEP he worked as the Programmes Head for Indian Schools Debating Society which is an education non-profit. He has interned with senior advocates at various courts in Delhi and Bangalore. He is currently working with Professor Rajesh Chadha on the Non-Fuel Minerals and Mining in India (NFM&MIN) research project, where he was earlier an intern. His research interests are sustainable development, public policy and economic analysis of law.

Souvik Bhattacharjya

Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya is engaged with the Resource Efficiency and Governance Division of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as its Director. He is also a visiting faculty at the TERI School of Advanced Studies, a Member of the BIS committee on environment management, and the co-ordinator of the South Asia Regional Centre of Excellence (RCoE), for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) of UNEP.

Parveen Kumar

Program Head – Sustainable Batteries, Cities and Transport program, WRI India

With 19 years of post-PhD experience, Dr. Kumar leads projects on electric vehicles, battery energy storage, critical minerals, and circular economy. His interests include clean technology needs, energy storage, electric vehicles, solar energy, and rare earths. He has contributed to advanced battery R&D and solar energy initiatives, including leadership within the SERIIUS project.

Mr. Vivek Chandran

Vivek Chandran is the Co-Founder of Solutions for Sustainable Living (SoSuL), Bangalore, with over a decade of experience spanning climate and energy policy, transport decarbonisation, urban climate action, critical minerals, and philanthropic strategy. His research interests focus on policy frameworks that strengthen critical energy transition materials (CETM) demand and supply security, promote circular economy and mineral recovery, advance ESG-aligned mining and processing, and support industrial localisation of clean-tech manufacturing. He is also engaged in exploring strategic philanthropy and institutional models to accelerate low-carbon transitions.

Ms. Sahana L.

Sahana is the Clean Mobility Specialist at NRDC India. She is an energy professional with over 7 years of work experience in electric mobility and clean energy sectors. She pursued her master’s degree in Renewable Energy Engineering and holds a post-graduate diploma in Transmission and Distribution Systems from National Power Training Institute (NPTI). In the clean transportation sector, her work primarily involves policy advocacy and research on grid integration of EVs, fleet electrification, supply-side policies and battery circularity. NRDC intends to be a part of the Working Group – Technology & Capacity.