Hi and welcome to my website!

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. My interests are in public policy research with a particular interest in the selection and training of administrative personnel and a regional focus on India.

I focus on sub-national recruitment of government officials in India. Using a mixed-methods approach, I study why understaffing persists at a state level despite budgetary and political sanctions and a high demand for government jobs. I use a combination of qualitative methods such as elite interviews to do process tracing and complement this with techniques of computational social science such as text analysis.

I primarily work with administrative data utilizing data from government reports, notifications, orders, and memoranda to analytically study recruitment policy in India. I also scrape data from newspapers and e-courts databases to track impediments to capacity-building initiatives.

Before the Ph.D., I was a policy researcher with Mercatus Centre, IDFC Institute (now Artha Global Advisors), Swaniti Initiative, and Open Society Foundation, having worked on a wide range of topics: economic liberalization, data governance, and fiscal federalism. I was also a Teach for India Fellow teaching low-income school kids in the slums of Delhi and Mumbai.

You can view my CV here. And if you want to know what I look like: the picture is below.