Dinesh Kumar Tiwari is a Fellow at NCAER. He is an anthropologist with rich experience of primary data collection for large-scale social surveys, qualitative interviews, and experimental data collection, with a special focus on field management, monitoring and supervision, and ensuring data quality. He is part of the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), and is currently engaged in co-ordination, trainings, supervision, data collection and field management for Round 3 of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) project. He has earlier also undertaken these tasks for the IHDS round II (2011-12) and Migration Survey (IHDS-II-M). He has also worked on conceptualising and implementing experimental research for the Delhi Metropolitan Area Study (DMAS) and the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey (DCVTS). Prior to joining NCAER, he has worked with various reputed research organisations like the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, the World Bank, and the Center de Sciences Humaines, Embassy of France (Palanpur Study). His areas of interest include migration studies, ethnographic research, public health, and experimental economics.