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Dr. Soumya Gupta

Soumya Gupta received her PhD from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in 2015, after which she worked as a research economist at TCI. Her research interests lie at the intersection of food security, agriculture, and maternal and…

Anshuman Gupta

Anshuman Gupta received his Master of Public Administration with a concentration in international development studies from Cornell University in 2020. His primary interests lie in agriculture economics and he is passionate about creating sustainable value chains to enhance smallholder farmer…

Dr. Natasha Jha

Natasha Jha earned her PhD in applied economics and management in 2023. As a TCI scholar, her work examined price distortions and environmental externalities associated with agricultural policies and practices. Natasha holds an MA in economics from the Delhi School…

Ekta Joshi

Ekta Joshi graduated from Cornell with a PhD in applied economics and management in 2024. She is an economist in the agrifood economics division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Her research at TCI focused on…

Naveen Sridhar Kottayil

Naveen Sridhar Kottayil is a research support specialist at TCI. His primary interests lie in creating forward and backward linkages for farmers and producers in order to formulate sustainable agriculture solutions and improve the incomes of Indian farmers. Naveen previously…

Dr. Kavya Krishnan

Kavya Krishnan earned her PhD in the field of soil and crop sciences in 2022. Her primary research interest is soil health – particularly its effects on food security. For the fieldwork component of her doctorate, she worked with India-based…

Dr. Kathryn Merckel

Kathryn Merckel completed her PhD in international nutrition in 2020. She is currently the associate director for nutrition and food systems at the international development nonprofit ACDI/VOCA. Kathryn studied biofortification and its role in diversifying diets, particularly those of women…

Chanchal Pramanik

Chanchal Pramanik received a PhD in regional science from Cornell University in 2024. His primary research interest is rural-urban dynamics and how they can benefit rural economies, with a focus on digital technologies. Prior to Cornell, Chanchal worked as a…

Dr. Sri Raj

Srilakshmi (Sri) Raj was a research associate at TCI until 2020. She is currently a faculty member at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. A human population geneticist with expertise in Indian genetic variation, Sri studied the…

Dr. Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar

Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar earned her PhD in applied economics and management from Cornell University in 2021. She is now an assistant professor of economics at Krea University in Sri City, India. Her research interests lie in the field of development…

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