Programme Team

Abhishek built and leads The Council’s practice on Energy Access, where, along with his team, he focuses on provision of modern forms of energy for all, especially the deprived. He leads CEEW’s flagship research effort, ACCESS survey.

Jenaan is a development professional with over a decade’s experience in strengthening small to medium-sized NGOs, CSR advisory, and women’s health. At Villgro, she looks after operations and leads the organisation’s Diversity & Inclusion efforts.

Ananth’s career spans over two decades in technology development, product R&D and more recently, deployments of technology-driven social impact programs. He was responsible for the creation of SELCO Foundation which looked into the use of renewable energy and sustainable technologies.

An economist-turned-development professional, Wase’s work at The Council focuses on energy access and rural livelihoods. He is engaged in programmes supporting commercialisation of clean energy innovations for livelihoods.

Anubha supports social entrepreneurs at Villgro in building gender-inclusive business strategies across their value chains. She is a development professional with prior experience of promoting entrepreneurship in rural areas at Kudumbashree – National Resource Organisation.

Shashikanth Subramanya has seven years of experience in the impact space, apart from 3 years of business development for a hydraulic systems manufacturer. His key area of interest lies in the intersection of entrepreneurship and rural livelihood generation.

Sreejith is a renewable energy professional with 14 years hands-on experience in design and implementation of off-grid, industrial and utility scale Solar PV projects. Sreejith has previously worked with social enterprise SELCO.

Divya is a social impact professional focussed on working towards augmenting the positive socio-economic environmental changes at the grassroot level with a data-driven approach. Divya looks into the impact measurement along with supporting on integrating gender inclusivity in the initiative.

Pratim has almost six years of experience in the development sector in the energy access space. His key areas of interest include the intersection of innovation, energy & entrepreneurship. Prior to this, at SELCO Foundation, he was involved in R&D of decentralised renewable energy-based technology and business models.

Prachi looks after the gender integration within the programme. A recent policy grad from SOAS University of London on the Chevening Scholarship, she is passionate about bottom to top policy making and wants to contribute towards creating a thriving support ecosystem for policy, politics, systemic, and behavioural change.

Fiza Ranalvi Jha , Communications Specialist | Fiza Ranalvi Jha works at The Council as a Communications Specialist with the Outreach team. Her work focuses on Green Economy and Powering Livelihoods initiatives under the Sustainable Livelihoods vertical. Prior to joining The Council, she has worked as a communications and storytelling specialist across various projects on gender, health, technology and finance with clients like Spotify, Google, BMGF, Comic Relief, and the Wellcome Trust. She has also previously been a journalist with ThePrint.

Priyatam, a renewable energy professional, works on assessing the impact of deployments of clean energy technologies within the Powering Livelihoods programme. He holds a Masters degree in Renewable Energy Engineering & Management from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.

Mousumi is engaged in integrating gender inclusion and writing knowledge products within the programme. She is a Young Women Leaders Fellowship fellow and has experience in developing project ideas on natural resource-based, gender-focused livelihood opportunities for rural communities.

Ramesh works as a Programme Lead at the programme. Previously, he worked at the World Bank as a consultant with Agricultura Global Practice of South Asian Region, extending operational support and guidance to the Government of Bihar in the implementation of rural livelihood projects.

Jyoti is a part of the Powering Livelihood team. She is leading the team’s engagement with public and private partners in the state of Uttar Pradesh. She supports the team in evidence generation regarding the impact of this partnership with the public stakeholders’ and with end-users. She has experience in working with and within government departments and NGOs.