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. Pallavi Rajkhowa was a postdoctoral research fellow and associate research fellow at TCI’s Center of Excellence in New Delhi, where she supported the Center’s research activities, with a focus on projects associated with the Farmer Producer Organization Hub. She…

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…

Tanvi Rao completed her PhD in applied economics and management at Cornell University in June 2017. Her primary research interests were in the field of development economics and applied econometrics. As a TCI scholar, she studied the demand for different…

Fatma Rekik graduated from Cornell University in 2020 with a PhD in soil science with minors in agronomy and nutritional sciences. She is currently a knowledge management fellow in the monitoring, evaluation, and learning unit of the International Center for…

Shree Saha earned her MS and PhD in the field of applied economics and management from Cornell University in 2025. Her research interests include women’s empowerment, maternal and child nutrition, financial inclusion, and development. Prior to joining Cornell, she worked…

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…

Dr. 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 at Cornell University, she spent 18 months in the…

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…

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…