Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
Associate II, July 2021 – Present, The Population Council, New York
Senior Fellow, September 2018 – June 2021, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Washington DC
Fellow, April 2018 – August 2018, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Washington DC
Associate Director of Research, September 2016 - March 2018, Tata Centre for Development, University of Chicago
Fellow, October 2012 – September 2016, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Washington DC
Visiting Scholar, August 2014 – June 2016, The Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
Postdoctoral Scholar, October 2010 – September 2012, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington DC
Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2010 – October 2010, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
Summer Intern, 2009, Dept. of Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Research Assistant, 2008, University of California, Riverside
Summer Intern, 2006, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India
Extended Term Consultant, 2004-2005, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India
Consultant, 2003, South Asia Human Development Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India
Education
PhD in Economics – University of California, Riverside, 2010
M.Sc. in Economics – University of Calcutta, India, 2003
B.Sc. in Economics (honors), Mathematics, Political Science – RKMR College Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India, 2001
Academic Peer Reviewing and Editing Activities
Peer Reviewer for: Asian Population Studies, BMJ Global Health, BMJ Open, Children and Youth Services Review, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, Demography, Economics and Human Biology, Health Affairs, Health Care Management Science, Health Economics, Health Economics Policy and Law, Health Policy and Planning, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Effectiveness, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Nature Communications, Oxford Development Studies, PLoS Medicine, PLoS One, Population and Development Review, Population Studies, Social Science and Medicine, Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, Vaccine, World Development.