Sahila Kudalkar is a former Conservation Director and Program Manager at the Wildlife Conservation Society-India, where she led a Counter Wildlife Trafficking team across 14 Indian states, resulting in over 100 arrests. She has held research roles at the Energy Policy Institute and the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, focusing on environmental policy and economics. Sahila was a 2018 Inlaks Ravi Sankaran Small Grantee for her work on community-based natural resource management in Northeastern India.