Bornali Bhandari is a Professor at NCAER with a background in international economics and macroeconomics, specifically focusing on the impact of globalisation on development. Currently, she is engaged in a number of industry studies including automobiles, farm mechanisation, and digitisation. Her wider research interests include analysis of skilling from a 3-E perspective (education, employability and...   Read More

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...   Read More

Navya Srivastava is working as a  Research Associate. She has a Master’s degree in International Economics with Development Economics from the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Prior to joining NCAER, she worked as an Intern at the World Trade Organisation, Switzerland and Ernst & Young, India.

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...   Read More

Mehak Jain is working as a Research Associate in the Centre on Gender and the Macroeconomy.   Ms. Jain has a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. And, she did her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University. Before joining NCAER, she has also worked as a Research Analyst at...   Read More

Aakash Dev is an Associate Fellow with the Centre for Gender and Macroeconomy, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. His doctoral research is in the area of Labour Macroeconomics, in particular, computation of Job Search Models. He did his Master’s...   Read More