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.