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Karuna Salve

Karuna Salve completed her Master of Professional Studies in international development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. She also holds a master’s degree in social entrepreneurship from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in…

Payal Seth

Payal Seth was a research consultant with TCI in India working on survey implementation, data management, and empirical research using experimental, quasi-experimental, and panel data methods. As a TCI scholar, she spent 18 months in the field leading the construction…

Dr. Vanisha Sharma

Vanisha Sharma received her PhD in applied economics and management in 2024. She is interested in analyzing the effects of the internet and digitization in rural economies. Her field-based research involves exploiting increasing internet access in rural communities to analyze…

Dr. Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma was a postdoctoral associate with TCI from 2014-2016. Her work aimed to quantify risks to agriculture in India due to climate change. This effort builds on the extensive current body of work in this area by doing the…

Dr. Naveen Sunder

Naveen Sunder completed his PhD in economics at Cornell University in May 2019. He joined the faculty of Bentley University as an assistant professor. Naveen specializes in using microeconomics and econometrics to address questions in international development, with a focus…

Dr. Shubh Swain

Shubh Swain was the assistant director for TARINA and a gender and nutrition specialist at TCI. He is a demographer by training and has nearly a decade of work experience in gender, nutrition, and public health in India and Africa.…

Dr. Anna David Thottappilly

Anna David Thottappilly earned her PhD in applied economics and management in 2023. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Her research centers on the intersection of agriculture and…

Sonali Uppal

Sonali Uppal earned her MPA in International Development Studies at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. Her primary research interests lie in the intersection of development economics and agricultural livelihood. She is also interested in exploring mechanisms for improving agricultural…

Dr. Maureen Valentine

Maureen Valentine completed her PhD in animal science at Cornell University in August 2018. Her research focused on enhancements to the productivity of goat production systems in rural India through improved animal nutrition. Livestock production in India faces a widespread…

Dr. Shiuli Vanaja

Shiuli Vanaja earned her PhD in applied economics and management in 2020. She is now an assistant professor of economics at Azim Premji University in Bangalore. Her research interests lie in the field of development and resource economics, specifically the…

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