Shankar Haldar (Senior Program Manager), Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Energy Engineering from IIT – Kharagpur and Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering. He is also a Certified Energy Auditor from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, as well as certified SA–8000 Auditor. Earlier to the position, he has worked with the National Productivity Council, New Delhi, for 15 years in the capacity of Sr. Deputy Director. He has rich experience and worked in the field of energy management, energy conservation, energy efficiency and resource conservation. He has also worked in number of policy level studies and interventions. Architect for formulation of the strategic document “Energy Conservation Action Plan for States” to implement Energy Conservation Act - 2001. Subjects close to his heart are DSM, energy auditing and accounting in power distribution network, SME / cluster level demonstration initiatives and GIS & MIS based system.

Sudhir Singhal (Senior Advisor) graduated in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur and did his Masters in Applied Physical Sciences (Tribology) from the University of Reading and the University of Wales, UK.  His principal interests have been fuel and lubricant applications in internal combustion engines, alternate fuels, R&D management and Tribology. He has published over 200 papers, has been a member of Auto Fuel Policy Committee, Supreme Court appointed apex committee on Waste Management, and has been Convenor/member of several committees of Govt. of India and the Bureau of Indian Standards. He served at the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (a premier CSIR lab) for 38 years, and retired as Director in 2003.

Manish Soni (Senior Program Officer) completed his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Rourkela in 2007. During his final year of B. Tech, he worked on a project titled “Three Dimensional Solid Modeling of Screw and Scroll Compressors including Animation”. His areas of interest are non-conventional applications, solid modeling and graphics.

Chaman Kumar Shukla (Program Associate) is a graduate from Kanpur University and an Electrical Diploma Engineer with specialization in process control and instrumentation from U.P. Technical Education, Lucknow. He has more than 10 years of work experience. His works mainly involves conducting field studies, trial measurements, field verification, scheme implementation, field data collection, efficiently estimation analysis of data and assisting in formulation of reports. He has developed certain professional strengths in course of time and few of them are handling various sophisticated Energy Auditing Equipments and conducted various test trials independently for major industries like Power Plants, Textiles, Sub-stations, Buildings audits etc.

Anisha K. Bhattacharya (Program Officer) is an M.Tech in Energy Technology from Tezpur University, Assam and completed her B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, UP, in the year 2004. Prior to Joining Winrock, Anisha was working with DSCL Energy Services Company Ltd., Delhi as a project Analyst Trainee for a period of one year. In Winrock, as a team member, Anisha is involved with the Energy Audit Study of the MP State Tourism Development Corporation Hotels and with the JICA Project for providing Consulting Services for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Energy Saving Project.