About

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. I completed my PhD in Public Policy at the School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, in 2026. My work sits at the intersection of the economics of education, child labor, climate change, and program evaluation.

You can download my full CV here.

Research interests: Economics of Education · Child Labor · Climate Change · Program Evaluation · Evidence Synthesis

Education

PhD, Public Policy — School of Public Policy, Oregon State University (2026)
MS, Economics — Portland State University (2015)
MSc, Economics — University of Calcutta (2013)
BSc, Economics — Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (2011)

Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2026–)

Professional Experience

Consultant, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (2025)
Consultant, Vaccine Hesitancy Project, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2022)
Evaluation Specialist — Transparency, Reproducibility & Ethical Evidence (TREE), 3ie (2021–2022)
Senior Research Associate, 3ie (2020)
Research Associate, 3ie (2018–2019)
Research Associate, Outline India (2017–2018)

Research Experience

Assistant to Professor Cesar Rodriguez, Portland State University (2021, 2023, 2025, 2026)
Assistant to Professor John Gallup, Portland State University (2014–2015)
Assistant to Professor Jamein Cunningham, Portland State University (2014–2015)
Assistant to Professor Saumik Paul, University of Nottingham Malaysia (2013)
Summer Researcher, Indian Statistical Institute, ISI (2012)

Teaching

Instructor / Graduate Teaching Assistant, Oregon State University (2022–2026)
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago (2015–2017)
Teaching Assistant, Portland State University (2013–2015)

See the Teaching page for a full list of courses.

Invited Talks & Conferences

APPAM; Northwest Development Workshop (2025)
National Planning Department, Government of Colombia — remote (2021)
National Conference on Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning, NITI Aayog — remote (2021)
Transparency, Reproducibility & Credibility Research Symposium, World Bank, Washington D.C. (2019)
Research Transparency, ICAR short course series, ICAR-IIHR, Bangalore (2018)
EvalFest, Evaluation Community of India, New Delhi (2018)

Service & Affiliations

Referee — Journal of Development Effectiveness
Advising — Asher Ward, Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis, Oregon State University
Memberships — American Economic Association (AEA); Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

Training & Certifications

Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2), BITSS (2019)
Project Management for Development Professionals (PMD Pro), Level 1 (2018)

Skills

Languages — English, Bengali, Hindi
Statistical software — Stata, R
Other tools — LaTeX, Python, GitHub, ArcGIS, GeoDa, SurveyCTO, Epi Info