Nitin Sekar

sENIOR FELLOW
FOR ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS

Nitin is our Senior Fellow for alternative proteins, leading CXL's efforts to expedite a transition to a more sustainable diet.

He brings key experiences in strategic program development, communication, and international development. As WWF-India’s national lead for elephant conservation (2018-23), Nitin built a comprehensive program to understand and manage human-elephant conflict, restore wildlife habitat, reduce train-elephant collisions, and evaluate key interventions. As a science-policy fellow at USAID, Nitin advanced work on monitoring and evaluation, Indigenous people’s rights, and combating the illegal wildlife trade, co-authoring research submitted by the Kenyan delegation to argue against legalization of the ivory trade at the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species. Nitin also spearheaded a project exploring the role cultivated meat could play in biodiversity conservation.

Nitin has a Ph.D. in ecology and a certificate in science, technology, and environmental policy from Princeton University.