Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on the lives of individuals with a focus on education, employment, gender, and maternal and child health. She leads the...   Read More

Pallavi Choudhuri is a Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Center (NDIC). Her primary research interests are in the areas of social protection, informality, poverty, employment, and gender. Previously, at NDIC, she has led experiments on measurement gaps in income and consumption data and women’s paid and unpaid work. She is part...   Read More

Bijay Chouhan is working as Data Manager with NCAER’s new National Data Innovation Centre. His interest area includes advanced data and IT technologies. Bijay has an experience of around 15 years in applying information technology to processes and systems. An IT professional with considerable experience in managing and analysis of high volume of primary/ secondary...   Read More

O. P. Sharma is a Consultant at the NCAER, specializing in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently working in the project ‘India Human Development Survey-III. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertilizer Consumption and Quality Seeds, India Human Development Survey-I 2004-05, Rural Economic and...   Read More

Dinesh Kumar Tiwari is a Fellow at NCAER. He is an anthropologist with rich experience of primary data collection for large-scale social surveys, qualitative interviews, and experimental data collection, with a special focus on field management, monitoring and supervision, and ensuring data quality. He is part of the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), and is...   Read More

Debasis Barik is a Senior Fellow, at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre. He is a demographer by training with a specialization in economic demography and ageing. He has worked on public health, migration, gender, and intergenerational well-being. However, more than a decade of work at NCAER has diversified his research career, now spanning the...   Read More

Ruchi Jain is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. She is a demographer by training. Her primary research interest is in public health, gender, reproductive and sexual health and migration. At NCAER, she has worked on various projects like IDRC, IHDS and Rural Housing. Currently she is working with the National Data Innovation Centre. Her doctoral work...   Read More

Jaya Koti is working as a Research Analyst with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. She holds a post-graduation degree in Rural Development from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has worked on various projects at the institution, like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, and the “India Human Development Survey”, among others....   Read More

Vinay Kumar Pandey is a Field Manager at NCAER. He has four years of experience in conducting research studies and devising field-related strategies. He has earlier worked with some of the most prestigious institutes. He was a Research Assistant at the Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, and a Research Associate at the Indian Institute...   Read More

Amirthammal Guna Grace is a Programmer at NCAER since March 1, 2022. She is working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). She was earlier employed at the National Institute of Epidemiology under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), as Project Scientist-Data Analyst as part of the “India Hypertension Control Initiative” project. This project...   Read More

Deepa. S is an Executive at NCAER. She has been working as a Project Assistant with the IHDS project and NDIC. She has specialised in secretarial work, and event management like internal team and survey management work, and data validation. She is also proficient in the applications of Excel, Word, and Foxpro, designing and re-formatting...   Read More

Ajay Gupta is currently working as Consultant with NDIC. Before this he worked in NCAER Account Section for about 20 years. He is having good practical exposure of various accounting function.

Bipasa Banerjee is a Research Associate at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). Her primary research interest is in the area of development economics with a focus on gender health and public policy. She holds two Master’s degrees, including an MA in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and an...   Read More

Ranjima K.V. is a Research Associate in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. She holds a post-graduation degree in Biostatistics and Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences. Prior to joining as an RA, she was an intern at NCAER and currently works on site-wise data monitoring and quality analysis. Her other...   Read More

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...   Read More

Priyanshu has joined NCAER as a Communications and Outreach Associate with the National Data Innovation Centre. She has previously worked with various organisations, including The Naz Foundation India Trust, M3M Foundation, United Way India and Dhwani RIS. She has a Master’s degree in Media and Cultural Studies from TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and...   Read More

Athira Vinod is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. Her primary research interests are in development economics, education economics and applied microeconomics. She has previously worked as a research assistant at not-for-profit organizations such as the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India. Athira holds...   Read More

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...   Read More

Reshma Roshania is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. Her research interests include nutrition, food policy, migration, and gender. She completed her PhD in Nutrition and Health Sciences from Emory University in 2021. Prior to doctoral studies, she worked in global health and development for close to ten years, specialising in evaluation and research with organisations...   Read More

Zareena is working as a Team Assistant with the IHDS project and NDIC.

Dibyasree Ganguly is an Associate Fellow in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. She has earlier worked as a Research Assistant at various research and teaching institutions, including the National University of Singapore; University of Western Australia, Perth; and the Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh; and as a Research Assistant and Research...   Read More

Nisha is a Research Associate at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) and India Human Development Survey (IHDS) – III.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Application from Punjab Technical University.  She also did M. SC (IT) from Punjab Technical University.