Sonalde Desai is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Professor at NCAER, and Director of NCAER’s National Data Innovation Centre. She is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social inequalities in developing countries with a particular focus on gender and class inequalities in human development. While much of her research...   Read More

Pallavi Choudhuri is a Senior Fellow at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Center (NDIC), with primary research interests in development, informality, employment, inequality, and gender. At NDIC, her recent work has focused on leading experiments related to measurement gaps in income and consumption data and women’s time use data. Prior to joining NCAER, Choudhuri taught courses...   Read More

Bijay Chouhan is working as Data Manager with NCAER’s new National Data Innovation Centre. His interest area includes advanced data and IT technologies. Bijay has an experience of around 15 years in applying information technology to processes and systems. An IT professional with considerable experience in managing and analysis of high volume of primary/ secondary...   Read More

O. P. Sharma is a Fellow at the NCAER, specializing in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently working in the project ‘India Human Development Survey-III. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertilizer Consumption and Quality Seeds, India Human Development Survey-I 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic...   Read More

Dinesh Kumar Tiwari is a Fellow at NCAER. He is an anthropologist with rich experience of primary data collection of large scale social surveys, qualitative interviews and experimental data collection with special focus on field management, monitoring and supervision, ensuring data quality. His areas of interest include migration studies, ethnographic research, public health and experimental economics.....   Read More

Debasis Barik is a Fellow at NCAER, working in the area of public health and mortality. His research interests are in public health, demography, migration, gender, labour and social security. His current research focuses on health and health systems analysis. His other research interests include analysing the issues arising out of demographic transition in India.

Manjistha Banerji is a Fellow at National Council of Applied Economic Research. Her primary areas of research are family demography, social change and gender, migration, education and development and survey methods. At the National Data Innovation Centre at the Council, she is involved with experimentations on different data collection techniques in the Delhi Metropolitan Area,...   Read More

Ruchi Jain is a Senior Research Analyst at NCAER. She is a demographer by training. Her primary research interest is in public health, gender, reproductive and sexual health and migration. At NCAER, she has worked on various projects like IDRC, IHDS and Rural Housing. Currently she is working with the National Data Innovation Centre. Her doctoral...   Read More

Abhinav Motheram works as a Research Analyst at National Data Innovation Center, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). His current research interests lie at the intersection of data quality, processes of data generation, and related fields of survey methods applied across different domains of social sciences. Prior to joining NCAER, his work involved applied research...   Read More

Jaya Koti is a Project Analyst at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) and India Human Development Survey (IHDS) - III.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Rural Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).  She has worked on various projects like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, “India Human Development...   Read More

Anupma Mehta is Editor at NCAER. She is responsible for writing, editing, and producing diverse company literature, including digital content, press releases, newsletters, working papers, reports, proposals, and project briefs for dissemination among stakeholders and clients of NCAER. She leads the communications team and is Managing Editor of the in-house flagship journal, the India Policy Forum,...   Read More

Gurpreet Singh is a Field Manager at NCAER’s National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). He specialises in primary data collection and field management. His main skill sets are in the areas of survey research, including interviewer training, experimental research and designing, and conduction of interviews. He has earlier worked as Project Officer for the project, Mahindra...   Read More

Amirthammal Guna Grace has joined NCAER as Programmer with effect from March 1, 2022. She will be working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). Amirthammal joins us from the National Institute of Epidemiology under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), where she was employed as Project Scientist-Data Analyst. She has hands-on experience in overseeing...   Read More

Bianca Daw is a Field Trainer at the National Data Innovation Centre, National Council of Applied Economic Research. Her primary areas of research interest include Sociology of Education; Urban Sociology; Research Methodology; Indian Society; Science, Culture and Society; Technology, Culture and Society; Sociology of Development; Environment and Sustainable Development; Rural Society & Agrarian Change. At...   Read More

Neeraj Kumar is an IT Helpdesk Executive at NCAER. As an IT professional, he is skilled in hardware and networking. His role entails maintaining technical and administrative procedures, providing technical support on IT infrastructure/incident management and ensuring effective technical solutions. He has a Diploma in Computers and Networking, and is currently pursuing a BCA/MCA Integrated Programme...   Read More

Deepa. S is an Executive at NCAER. She has been working as a Project Assistant with the IHDS project and NDIC. She has specialised in secretarial work, and event management like internal team and survey management work, and data validation. She is also proficient in the applications of Excel, Word, and Foxpro, designing and re-formatting...   Read More

Ajay Gupta is currently working as Consultant with NDIC. Before this he worked in NCAER Account Section for about 20 years. He is having good practical exposure of various accounting function.

Bipasa Banerjee is a Research Associate at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). Her primary research interest is in the area of development economics with a focus on gender health and public policy. She holds two Master’s degrees, including an MA in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and an...   Read More

Ranjima K.V. is a Research Associate in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER. She holds a post-graduation degree in Biostatistics and Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences. Prior to joining as an RA, she was an intern at NCAER and currently works on site-wise data monitoring and quality analysis. Her other...   Read More

Anomita Ghosh is an Associate Fellow at NCAER. She has completed her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She did her M.Phil. from IGIDR, Mumbai and her M.A in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Presidency College, University of Calcutta. She has worked at a few...   Read More

Reshma Roshania is Post-Doctoral Fellow at NCAER. Her research interests include nutrition, food policy, migration, and gender. She completed her PhD in Nutrition and Health Sciences from Emory University in 2021. Prior to doctoral studies, she worked in international development and humanitarian response for ten years, specializing in evaluation and research. Reshma holds an MPH...   Read More