Mahima Vasishth is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. She will join as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies, Bocconi University, in September 2023. Her research interests lie in the fields of Labour, Development, and Public Economics. She specialises in understanding the factors that shape women’s economic and social participation, and the criminal justice system in developing economies. She worked at the International Monetary Fund in the summer of 2020 as a Fund Intern, wherein she co-authored a paper on the participation of women in the Fintech industry across countries, as users and leaders. Mahima has also published on the role of a mismatch between the mother tongue and medium of instruction in schools on linguistic minorities in India.
Ms. Mukta holds M.A. degree in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics. Her core competencies lies in designing the study, finalizing the survey tools, program implementation, and writing reports, concept notes and developing business. She is well versed in handling large scale qualitative data. Mukta has previously worked with Delhi Government and institutes of strategic importance like Institute of Economic Growth and Indian Institute of Management-Ahemdabad. She has also collaborated with Professors from International Institutes like John Hopkins University, Harvard and Yale University. She has hands-on experience of development of survey tools, protocol, assuring data quality, and report writing. She has worked in various domains such as education, health, public policy and etc. While working with Institute of Economic Growth, she has successfully contributed to a longitudinal ageing study, whose main focus was to understand the financial, emotional and health issues faced by ageing population in India. Also, contributed in strategic planning and implementation of various programs implemented by Delhi Government like “Setting up of Anganwadi Hubs”, “Non-PDS Ration Distribution during times of COVID” and etc.
Ms Divya Singh is the Head of Finance at NCAER.
Prior to joining NCAER, she was working as an Assistant General Manager, Finance and Internal Audit, at ATS Infrastructure, Noida, UP. She has also worked at Paarth Infrabuild Pvt. Ltd. in their Corporate Operations and Internal Audit team; as Senior Accounts Officer with the Airforce Naval Housing Board, Delhi; as Audit Assistant with the CA firm, Sanjay Shyam Garg and Company; and, as an Assistant Manager with the ICICI Bank.
She has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from RG Degree College, Meerut.
Swapnanil Sengupta as a Research Associate in the National Growth and Macroeconomic Centre.
Mr. Sengupta has double Master’s degree in Economics and Financial Economics from the Universities of Tübingen, Germany and Manchester, UK, respectively. He did his Bachelors’ degree in Economics from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal.
He has worked as a Research Intern at the Deutsch Bundesbank, Germany; Centre for International Economics, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Germany; and, the Chair of Economic History, University of Tübingen, Germany.
His area of interest is inequality, development, international economics and policies.
Ratna Sahay is an Honorary Professor at NCAER.
She was a Special Advisor to the Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until recently. She led the IMF’s first gender mainstreaming strategy in 2022 which was endorsed by 190 member countries and was responsible for mainstreaming gender in the Fund’s core activities-surveillance, programmes, and capacity development. Before that she was a Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where she led several policy papers and projects in the areas of monetary policy, exchange rate policy, capital account, financial development, financial inclusion, and gender. She has worked in several regional departments in the IMF, leading missions to its member countries. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. (USA), and is currently serving on IMF’s External Advisory Panel on Gender and on working groups of the G-20 and the World Economic Forum. She has published widely in leading journals.
She has taught at Delhi University and New York University, She holds a PhD in Economics from New York University, New York.
