Riddhi is a Research Analyst with the Center for Energy Finance at The Council. She works on tracking the renewable energy market and contributes towards solutions to create an inclusive and feasible RE market.

Prior to The Council, she interned with the Climate Policy Initiative, where she worked on formulating a vulnerability analysis to rank coal transition-affected states in India. She has also worked as a Summer Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, where she designed and carried out a research project to understand the effect of failed land acquisition on the agricultural income in West Bengal.

Riddhi holds a masters' degree in Environment and Resource Economics from TERI School of Advanced Studies and a bachelors’ degree in Economics from Bethune College, University of Calcutta.

Hailing from Calcutta, she has dabbled in various interests, from music and sports to photography. She is a trained vocal classical singer and a shooting guard representing her basketball club in various state-level meets. She also led the design team of her university’s sustainability magazine, Vasundhara.