I am an Associate Professor at the Centre for Development Studies since July, 2025. Prior to this, I was working as an Assistant Professor at CDS since 2015. I am also a fellow at the Gobal Labor Organization since 2024. I was one of the recipients of the "Her Research, Our Future" award, by Springer Nature, India in 2024. I have also received the CDS Prize for the best performing Assistant Professor in terms of publications for two consecutive terms (biennium 2021-2023 and 2019-2021) by Prof Arvind Panagariya and Prof Kaushik Basu respectively.
I also work as an adjunct faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management (Kozhikode) since 2019 and at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Trivandrum) in 2023.
I have completed my PhD in Development Studies from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai in 2016. My PhD dissertation dealt with the political and economic interactions of disinvestment policy in India. Using both theoretical and empirical tools, I examined the determinants of disinvestment policy and its effect on state owned enterprises in India.
Before my PhD, I have also worked as a business analyst in Genpact, Bangalore (2009-2010).
I completed my MSc in Economics (2009) from IGIDR, Mumbai and my BSc in Economics (2007) from Calcutta University.