Syamkrishnan P Aryan is a senior modeller with the Rural Futures programme at the Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs, a research centre in the Institute of Financial Management and Research Society. He has approximately six years of experience working with governments, social enterprises, cooperatives, and start-ups. Syamkrishnan was also associated with the International Water Management Institute to assess the Mission Kakatiya project by the Telangana government. He graduated from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand.