Manvi Khanna
Manvi Khanna is a Research Associate in the Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research. She completed her BBA.LLB (Hons.) from National Law University Odisha, Cuttack in 2021 and is a university gold medallist for highest grades in Corporate and Insurance Laws. Before joining Dvara Research, she worked with Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New […]
Sowmini G Prasad
Sowmini is a Research Associate with the Financial Systems Design initiative. She has a Master’s in Public Policy from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She is also a Chartered Accountant and began her career at VMware working as a Financial Analyst for their Asia-Pacific business operations. She later worked with Infosys as an […]
Niyati Agrawal
Niyati is a Research Associate with the Household Finance Research Initiative and Data Analytics Associate at Dvara Research. She completed her Master’s in Economics from Ashoka University, wherein for her dissertation, she worked on developing a theoretical model to study the problem of self-control with respect to social influence. Prior to joining Dvara Research, she […]
Natasha D’cruze
Natasha D’cruze is a Research Associate with Household Finance Research Initiative. She has a Master’s in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Delhi University. She has worked as an action researcher on the digital and Aadhaar-based delivery mechanism of social welfare schemes in Jharkhand, where she did […]
Hasna Ashraf
Hasna is a Research Associate with the Social Protection Initiative. She completed her master’s degree in development studies from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. At Dvara she has been researching extensively about social security systems, with a focus on health systems. As a fellow to the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System, she […]
Anubhutie Singh
Anubhutie is a Policy Analyst with the Future of Finance Initiative. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Economics, Mathematics and Statistics and has completed her Masters in Public Policy from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. With the Future of Finance Initiative, her research focuses on data infrastructure for financial inclusion in India.
Anjali Nambiar
Anjali is a Research Associate in the Social Protection Initiative vertical at Dvara Research. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. At Dvara, her research revolves around the design of social protection systems, health risk […]
Aishwarya Narayan
Aishwarya Narayan is a Research Associate at Dvara Research. She is passionate about building welfare systems that are equitably accessible for all and redistributive in nature. Aishwarya’s areas of research and advocacy include digitisation in social protection, last-mile delivery systems, and grievance redressal mechanisms in digital finance and social protection. An overarching theme across her […]
Abhishek Mukherjee
Abhishek Mukherjee is a Research Associate with the Social Protection Initiative. He has a keen interest in mobility, spatial analysis, and rural development. Prior to Dvara, he was working as a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he worked on developing a sustainable framework for gold mining as an opportunity for rural […]
