Aswathi R. Nair is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. Her research focuses on monetary policy, inflation targeting, financial cycles, financial stability, and macro-financial linkages in emerging economies. She has previously served as a Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Economic Change and interned at the Reserve Bank of India. She has also served as Visiting Faculty at NMIMS University. Her work has been published in various journals, including Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Energy Economics, and Central Bank Review.
Aswathi holds a PhD in Economics from IIT Bombay, and an MPhil in Economics from the Central University of Hyderabad.
Nistha Kanodia is a Research Associate in the National Growth and Macroeconomic Centre at NCAER. Her research interests lie in macroeconomic policy, development economics, and economic inequality. Prior to joining NCAER, she worked at the School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi, where she contributed to research on urban governance and climate vulnerability. Her work involved conducting institutional mapping of urban utility governance applying GIS-based analysis.
Nistha holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi.
Shubhangi Saxena is a Research Associate at NCAER. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics, specialising in Trade and Finance, from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University.
Her research interests lie in macroeconomics, public finance, international trade and public policy. Prior to joining NCAER, she was a Policy Research Intern with UNDP India. She has earlier also gained research experience through internships with NITI Aayog and PwC India.
Meevel Deena Jerry is a Research Associate at NCAER. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Bristol and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Madras Christian College. Her research interests lie in development and environmental economics, and macroeconomic analysis, particularly focusing on inflation expectations, sentiment measurement, and economic uncertainty. She also studies the use of machine learning and natural language processing to develop text-based indicators for economic policy analysis
Muskan Kumari is a Research Team Assistant within the Centre for Gender and Macroeconomics at NCAER, providing administrative and technical support to the Centre’s research team, and assisting it in meeting strategic project goals. She has seven years of professional experience in managing various research-related operations, including complex report formatting, data management, and project coordination.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English (Honours) from the University of Delhi and has a National Trade Certificate as a Stenographer and Secretarial Assistant from the Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI).
