Education
Doctor of Philosophy : Development Studies and Human Geography, 09/2023 – Current
King’s College London – London
Key Courses: Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of Discrimination
Master of Arts : Development Studies, 06/2019 – 05/2021
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
Key Courses: Advanced Qualitative Methods; Advanced Quantitative Methods; Concepts, History and Theories of Development; Development Economics
Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical, 08/2011 – 05/2015
University of Pune – Pune, India
Specialisation: Power Plant Engineering and Operations Research
Certification/Specialisation : Labour & Globalisation, 04/2021 – 04/2021
V. V. Giri National Labour Institute – New Delhi, India
Certification : The Political Economy of Trade Union Movement in India, 01/2022 – 01/2022
CDPR, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Patna, India
Work history
Teaching Assistant, 1/2026 – Present (Hillary Term)
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
• I’ll be assisting Prof Mark Graham and Dr Janaki Srinivasan in teaching Fair Digital Economies to MSc Social Science of the Internet course.
Guest Faculty, 11/2024 – Present
School of Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) – Tuljapur
• Designed and delivered a 30-hour undergraduate course titled Political Economy of Development, introducing key concepts, paradigms, and policy debates.
• Engaged students through case studies, in-depth discussions, and critical reflections, fostering an environment for unlearning and critical inquiry.
Research Assistant, 07/2024 – 12/2024
King’s College London, London
• Extracting Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey (EWS)
• Unit-Level Data Analysis
• Merging Datasets from 2017-2025
• Employment Trend Analysis– Women’s Work, trends wrt social categories, wages, Industries and Occupations contrasting with industry level GVA rates
National Coordinator, 11/2022 – 07/2023
India Labourline – Mumbai
Collaborative Project of Working People’s Coalition and Aajeevika Bureau
• Led organising efforts with gig workers in Mumbai and Bengaluru, generating insights into platform control, digital labour grievances, and worker agency; directly informing my academic research.
• Functional consulting for the development of internal MIS and required technological support in the transformation of business processes
• Training staff with an understanding of labour issues and grievance redressal mechanisms
Research Associate, 09/2022 – 10/2022
Transitions Research – Goa
Roles: Conducted interviews with gig workers, unions, and platform managers, contributing to analysis of digital work, precarity, and global production networks
Project: Expansion of the Gig Economy in India and Opportunities for EBMOs: Country Study and Regional Synthesis Report (funded by ILO)
Tech-Gov Consultant, 03/2021 – 02/2022
Finance Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh – Vijayawada
Roles: Primarily responsible for technological transformation of the business process of the finance department as a Project Manager, Secondary roles were database management, data analysis and advising the Principal Finance Secretary
Projects: i. Public-Works Management System (WMS); ii. Modernisation of GoAP Finance Codes; iii. Budget Preparation and Analysis; iv. Beneficiary Management Systems; v. Data Sharing Policy for APCFSS; vi. Provident Funds Policy Comparative Analysis; vii. Andhra Pradesh Legal Cases Monitoring System (APOLCMS)
Project Manager, 02/2022 – 05/2022
Development Solutions – New Delhi
Roles: General Management of Social Sector Projects, Client Interface; Operations Research: Devising Research Plans, Leading research teams, leading data collection, analysis and writing reports
Projects: 1. Child-Labour Free Jaipur (CLFJ), funded by CIFF & Freedom Fund, London The objective of project was to understand the origin and destination fields of child-labour, reasons of child being forced in labour, their conditions at workplace, their rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation with constant follow-ups
2. Perception Survey – Role of ASHA workers in India’s fight against Air Pollution To understand the awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of ASHA workers on air pollution, and its health implications; to understand the impact of air pollution on the children and families of ASHA workers, if any; and the role of mothers and carers in the context of health and air pollution.
Research Consultant, 02/2022 – 07/2022
xKDR – Mumbai
Roles: Literature Review, Data Cleaning and Wrangling, Data Analysis and Visualisation, Writing Paper
Projects: 1. Household Debt Conditions in India In this project, we used the CMIE Consumer Pyramid Household Survey (CPHS), which provides data on household debts, outstandings, delinquencies, sources and reasons for loans taken, household characteristics, assets and income.
2. Role of Payment Methods, Households’/Individuals’ Payment Method Preferences and Its Impact on their Income and Debt Conditions This project also used CMIE CPHS data to understand payment methods available to individuals and households, their access, digital access and literacy, and its overall effect household finance.
Research Officer, 01/2022 – 02/2022
CSTS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai – Mumbai
Roles: Research Plan, Devising quantitative and qualitative tools to conduct study, field-plan, data collection followed by analysis and writing reports and papers
Project: Livelihood Promotion of Tribal Communities in 100 Villages of District Chandrapur (Funded by Collectorate, Chandrapur District): The objective of project was to facilitate the preparation of the Community Forest Resource Management Plan for hundred villages under the Forest Rights Act and integrating the plans with line-department schemes, and assess and identify forest-based and other livelihood promotion opportunities in the study areas and prepare plans to integrate with line department schemes.
Research Consultant, 02/2022 – 03/2022
PRADAN – Remote
Roles: Literature Review for a paper to be published in World Development journal
Project: Assessment of Tasar-based livelihood programmes for tribal communities in Jharkhand by various stakeholders, viz. governments, NGOs and communities Address the problem of the dichotomy between conservation and livelihood promotion
Research Associate, 08/2020 – Current
Indian Researcher – New Delhi
Roles: Data collection, analysis and surveying of a project related to education, before and after pandemic
Projects: 1. Impact of Pandemic on School Education in India; 2. Conditions of Primary and Secondary Schools and Education in India using National Family Health Survey (NFHS)- 2021; 3. Representation of Students from SC/ST communities in eminent institutions like IITs, IIMs, NITs and other similar state-funded institutions
Research Associate (Part-time), 07/2020 – 12/2020
Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), Bangalore – Bangalore
Roles: Research Assistant, Data Collection, Analysis, Online Events Management, Social Media Graphics Designing
Projects: Projects: Pandemic Studies Unit In this project, I led the Maharashtra Team, which had the responsibility of conducting telephonic interviews across different agrarian classes.
Visiting Faculty, 06/2017 – 12/2017
Fergusson College’s Law School, Pune – Pune
Taught Two Papers: Indian Economy, Macroeconomics