I am an applied microconomist working in environmental and health economics, with prior experience at policy-oriented organisations.
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Aberdeen. I bring years of experience at two leading policy organisations: I was a High Meadows Postdoctoral Economics Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York (2021–2022), one of the world's largest environmental NGOs, and an Associate Fellow in the Development Economics vertical at the Brookings Institution India Center (2018–2020), a leading think tank shaping economic policy in India. I have also served as a Visiting Faculty member at Ashoka University and completed my PhD in Quantitative Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
My primary research focuses on the health impacts of fires, including crop burning and forest fires, and the policy responses designed to address them. Separately, I have studied the role of information campaigns in the context of arsenic contamination in Bangladesh, and I am actively working on the adoption of electric vehicles.
When I'm not working, my time is dedicated to reading widely and exploring the beautiful Scottish hills on foot.
