Saurabh Sinha joined NCAER as Senior Advisor with the Human Development and Data Innovation Centre after a long career with the United Nations.

Saurabh has a PhD from IDS Sussex (UK) and more than 35 years of international economic research, research management, policy advisory and teaching experience in the field of social policy including poverty and inequality reduction, employment, social protection, population dynamics, migration, youth and ageing.

In 2015-24, Saurabh was the Chief, Social Policy at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to joining ECA in 2015, Saurabh was Senior Economist with UNDP in Mongolia and has worked with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNDP Viet Nam, and as a consultant to various UNDP Country Offices, the World Bank and bilateral donor agencies. In 2021-23 Saurabh was on secondment to UNDP as Head of Policy Unit with UNDP Afghanistan, where he led the research and analytical work in the Country Office to support policy engagement after the collapse of the government in August 2021.

Saurabh is the lead author of a number of publications both in Africa and Asia-Pacific and at various times has taught development economics at Sussex University; National Economics University, Hanoi; and IIT, Delhi.