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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. My research is supported by grants and awards from Johns Hopkins SAIS, Gupta-Klinsky India Institute, Institute for Humane Studies, American Institute for Indian Studies, APSA Centennial Centre for Political Science and Public Affairs and Sawtooth’s Academic Grants Program.

My research examines the sub-national political economy of state capacity in developing countries, with a focus on the institutional processes that shape the recruitment and allocation of government personnel. Using a mixed-methods approach, I analyze how bureaucratic staffing patterns emerge and persist within different political and administrative contexts.

I primarily work with administrative data drawn from government reports, notifications, orders, and memoranda to study recruitment policy design and implementation. In addition, I scrape data from newspapers and e-courts databases to identify institutional and legal bottlenecks that constrain capacity-building efforts.

Additionally, I am a research assistant for Professor Devesh Kapur having worked on A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey. I am also a research assistant for Professor Yuen Yuen Ang working on The Polytunity Project at SNF Agora Institute.

I previously worked as a policy researcher, with contributions and citations appearing in reports of state-level committees, the Reserve Bank of India, and most recently — the World Bank’s World Development Report 2025. I was also a Teach for India Fellow, teaching children from low-income communities in Delhi and Mumbai.

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