Drishti Vishwanath is a Program Associate with the Food Loss and Waste team in WRI India’s Food, Land and Water program. At WRI India, she provides research and programmatic support to projects that work towards enhancing capacity building efforts and building action-based strategies to reduce food loss and food waste across the value chain.  

Prior to WRI, Drishti was co-managing a project on climate resilience in agri-food systems and gender in Odisha at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has managed pan-India studies commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. She has also worked at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, where she has been a key researcher for a G20 study on digital financial inclusion for women, youth and MSMEs for the Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India, and has also worked on themes such as sustainable business practices in European supply chains.

Drishti holds a master’s in Public Policy and Governance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences with a specialization in regulation and institutional reform, and a bachelor’s in Economics (honors) from Ambedkar University, Delhi.

In her personal time, Drishti enjoys reading books, listening to latin (bachata) music and hiking in the mountains.