Subhro Sen

Program management professional with over 20 years of institutional experience directing large-scale conservation, climate resilience, and renewable energy portfolios. Grounded in deep field-level execution, adept at overseeing the complete project lifecycle from initial project conceptualization and planning to structured technical design, budgeting, risk management, and linear field implementation. Core specialization centers on engineering rigorous Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) reporting frameworks and trackable KPI dashboards that verify field outcomes, maximize resource efficiency, and generate transparent, audit-ready data required for corporate statutory compliance.

Lead — Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at WWF-INDIA (2023-07 – Present)

Provide strategic leadership to strengthen program performance, transforming raw, qualitative field data into structured, auditable tracking frameworks for institutional and corporate stakeholders.

• M&E Framework Architecture: Design and deploy comprehensive field-level M&E systems and standardized metrics to transition traditional narrative data into clear, data-heavy KPI dashboards for executive review.
• Data Integrity & Audit Readiness: Establish rigid field validation and monitoring protocols across multiple project sites, securing absolute transparency and eliminating capital leakage to ensure quality data for statutory corporate audits.
• Performance Oversight: Generate data-driven structural insights that inform high-level management decisions, minimize operational bottlenecks, and guarantee that field execution tracks tightly with organizational milestones.

Senior Coordinator — Energy Access & Communities at WWF-INDIA (2016-02 – 2023-08)

Held complete strategic, fiscal, and operational accountability for WWF-India's renewable energy access and climate resilience portfolio across the Sundarbans and other priority landscapes, directing multiple donor-funded and co-funded projects delivered through CSO and community-based partners.

• Portfolio Capital Anchoring: Directed the deployment of a ₹30 Million (INR) solar mini-grid initiative (Project Sahasra Jyoti), electrifying 1,000 forest-fringe households across two unelectrified Sundarbans islands by 2020; structured co-funding partnerships with global corporate entities including Bank of America and Schneider Electric India Foundation.
• Portfolio Lifecycle Governance & Financial Stewardship: Exercised financial oversight over large-scale budgets and cross-functional teams, executing strict milestone-based expense matching and tranche-based fund disbursements, utilizing LogFrame matrices and Theories of Change to consistently honor complex donor commitments and timelines.
• Asset Transparency & Scale-Up: Extended clean energy infrastructure to a 500-household coastal village government water-supply system in Odisha, fully solar-PV powered by 2023, maintaining 100% project-dedicated asset transparency over corporate funding tranches to prevent ground-level leakage.
• Public-Private Diplomacy: Formed localized community-owned governance groups and aligned them with state government bodies, NGO networks, and elite international corporate banking stakeholders; contributed to climate change and energy access policy engagement.

Coordinator — Climate Change & Energy at WWF-INDIA (2009-01 – 2016-12)

• Designed and delivered local climate change adaptation, enterprise development, and disaster-preparedness infrastructure systems in highly vulnerable deltaic ecosystems.
• Installed a community-owned, managed, and operated 10 kWp solar PV system on a remote unelectrified Sundarbans island, in partnership with CAT International Projects, Australia, establishing the field-tested model later scaled into Project Sahasra Jyoti.
• Planned, designed, and implemented an electric-mobility clean transport solution in the Sundarbans to strengthen last-mile connectivity.
• Developed the foundational field methodologies, baseline research systems, and local verification protocols that served as the blueprint for community-based RE project M&E tracking systems.

Assistant Coordinator — Climate Change at WWF-INDIA (2008-01 – 2009-12)

• Developed and implemented climate change adaptation projects across the Sundarbans Delta.
• Represented WWF-India in the State Inter-Agency Group (IAG), West Bengal, a multi-stakeholder network of NGOs, CSOs, UN agencies, and government institutions.
• Supported media groups, research institutes, and interns in preparing policy papers, studies, and research reports on climate change impact and adaptation.

Senior Program Officer — Sundarbans Outreach Project at WWF-INDIA (2006-01 – 2008-12)

• Designed and implemented community-based sustainable aquaculture interventions under the WWF–World Bank supported Sundarbans natural resource management programme, improving livelihoods and biodiversity conservation outcomes.
• Conducted a study on bycatch in the coastal fisheries sector of Odisha as part of the Olive Ridley Turtle Conservation initiative.

Technical Officer — GIS & ENVIS at WWF-INDIA (2002-01 – 2004-12)

• Applied GIS and remote-sensing based spatial analysis to support ecological assessments, landscape planning, and evidence-based decision-making for biodiversity and natural resource conservation.
• Developed and managed the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) platform to strengthen knowledge management and information dissemination for stakeholders.

M.Phil. in Natural Resource Management – Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) (2004-01 – 2005-12)

PG Diploma in Public Systems Management (Specialization: Environment Management) – Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) (2001-01 – 2002-12)

B.Sc. in Computer Science – Bangalore University (1996-01 – 2000-12)