Ms. Sharmistha Baig as a Senior Advisor in the States, Sectors, Surveys, and Impact Evaluation unit.
Ms. Baig did her Master’s in Geography (Gold Medalist) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Masters in Urban Planning from the School of Planning & Architecture.
Ms. Baig has worked with Nielsen India Private Limited for 27 years and retired as Director, Public Development and Sustainability division in April 2023. Prior to that she has worked with a number of private sector organisations including ORGPL, India Limited; ORG-MART, India Ltd. ; ML Infomap; and Programme Support Unit in Lucknow (an Indo-Dutch collaboration). She has specialized experience in primary research and has worked extensively in the areas of water and sanitation, rural development including livelihoods, women and child health, enterprise surveys, among others. She has undertaken research for the Government of India and various donor agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, WSP-SA; and institutions (NCAER, CEPT University and international NGOs).
Manu Prathap is working as a Research Associate at NCAER. He completed his Master in Economics from Department of Economics, University of Kerala in October 2022, and completed his Bachelors in Economics from Government Arts College, Trivandrum.
During Bachelor’s Manu has worked as teacher in National Institution of Language Acquisition, Trivandrum. Additionally, he has done summer internships, Inter University Centre for Alternative Economics, Trivandrum. After graduation, Manu joined as Research Intern at Fiscal Policy Institute, Bangalore. Later on, he joined as Research Intern at Division of Central Finance, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai.
Sameeha Jameel is working as a Senior Research Analyst at NCAER. She holds two Master’s degrees, including Master’s in Development Studies from Dr. B. R Ambedkar University Delhi and Master’s in Economics from Indira Gandhi National Open University, complemented by her Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Mathematics from Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi University.
She has interned under a professor from O.P Jindal Global University on a project titled “District-level Health vulnerabilities induced by climate change in India”.
Dr. Sharan Sharma is an Assistant Research Professor with appointments in the departments of Sociology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. His research interests include cross-cultural methodology, interviewer effects, interviewer-respondent interaction, survey falsification, paradata, and modeling complex survey data. His management interests lie in the planning and implementation of large-scale complex surveys; more specifically, in organization development, capacity and capability building in developing countries, and process management.
Dr. Sharma has close to two decades of experience in the private sector, most recently as Senior Vice President for TAM India (a Kantar-Nielsen joint venture) where he held responsibilities spanning research, business development, and corporate affairs.
