Education
PhD in Economics at the University of Luxembourg (2022 - present)
Master's in Economics at Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum (affiliated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) (2016)
Bachelor's in Economics at the Symbiosis School of Economics in Pune, India (2014)
Work Experience: Research/ Consulting
Consultant, International Finance Corporation (DC, USA) (2024- present)
Consultant, Tally Solutions (Bangalore, India) (2023- present)
Helping define their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy
Conducting workshops with their CSR teams on Theory of Change, Log Frames, and M&E
Consultant, World Bank (DC, USA) (2023- 2024)
Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) team (part of the Social Protection and Jobs global practice)
Working on understanding the size, scale and experiences of location-based gig workers around the world
Scraped and analyzed data to understand gender-based wage disparities on online freelancing platforms
Consultant, Inclusive Education Team, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (New Delhi, India) (2021- 2022)
Led a team to synthesize evidence on out-of-school children during COVID-19 lockdowns in India
Led a team to investigate a digital intervention for parental engagement in early childhood education (ECE) among low-income households in Mumbai and Pune, in partnership with Rocket Learning and Akanksha Foundation
Research Assistant, Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER) (2022)
Applied machine learning methods such as LDA (topic modeling) to understand gender-based differences in PhD economics dissertation topics
Consultant, Equimundo (DC, USA) (2022, 2025)
Harmonized cross-country data of the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a UNFPA funded project
Research Assistant, Prof. Skerdijidalja Zanaj (University of Luxembourg) (2022)
Project Officer (Research), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) (2016- 2022)
Managed large research and policy projects from conception to dissemination funded by Central Square Foundation (2016-18); UNICEF (2018-2021); and Omidyar Network India & Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2021-22)
Led research activities (survey design, sampling, data analysis, writing, dissemination) to understand the state of food security, livelihood, and access to schemes of ~15,000 vulnerable rural households across 10+ states in India
Oversaw research activities and other deliverables of the project (full-time team size: 3-5) and led the coordination with funders & partners on deliverables, grants, finances (as program manager for the UNICEF partnership)
Monitored and trained a team of ~60 surveyors/ volunteers to conduct a household and learning survey in ~2000 households, part of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
Designed surveys, analyzed data, and authored several academic papers and policy reports on early childhood development, primary education, urban governance and other topics
Presented findings & outputs to academicians, practitioners and government officials
Expert, Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER) (2021)
Consultant, Educational Initiatives (Ahmedabad, India) (2021)
Conducted and facilitated workshops with government school teachers affiliated with the Madhya Pradesh State Assessment Cell
Research Assistant, Centre for Development Studies, (Trivandrum, India) (2016)
Carried out an extensive review of literature on poverty and backwardness, used for conceptualizing a backwardness index for India
Work experience prior to 2016: Kerala State Planning Board, Trivandrum; Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad; Janwani at the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), Pune
Teaching
Guest session on gender-based inequalities in education for Education Policy (3rd year, Bachelor's), FLAME University (2023)
Tutorials on data cleaning and analysis using STATA for the Causal Inference for Social Policy (2nd year PhD), IIM Ahmedabad (from 2017-2020)
Volunteering
Wazir Education Society (2022- present) (also board member)
Rapid Rural Community Response to COVID-19 (RCRC) (2020-22)
Rocket Learning (2020-22)
Right to Education Research Centre at IIM Ahmedabad (RTERC) (2016-2021)
Pune Collab (2016-19)
UNDP Kenya and ADB Youth for Asia, through UN Volunteers (2016)