Founding Team Members
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University. Her Ph.D. and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on caste and gender in India...
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Founding Director
ashwini.deshpande@ashoka.edu.in
Anisha Sharma is Assistant Professor of Economics and the Founding Member of Centre For Economic Data & Analysis. Her research interests are in the area of development economics, labour economics, firms, and public policy. Anisha completed her doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2016...
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Founding Member
anisha.sharma@ashoka.edu.in
Sabyasachi Das is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. He has received his Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University. Prior to joining Ashoka he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. His fields of specialization are political economy, public economics, and applied microeconomics....
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Founding Member
sabyasachi.das@ashoka.edu.inAdvisory Committee
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of CEDA.
Ashwini Deshpande
Chief Advisor and Scientific Director
Kanika Mahajan is Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University.
Kanika Mahajan
Member, Advisory Committee
S.K. Ritadhi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University.
S.K. Ritadhi
Member, Advisory Committee
Team CEDA
Abhay is the Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University. Dr. Abhay Gupta has worked at The Conference Board, NY; at the OECD, Paris; at the House of Commons, Ottawa; at the European Investment Bank, Luxembourg. Abhay has also taught courses in economics, business, finance and trade. Dr. Gupta has a PhD from University of British Columbia, Vancouver and a BTech from IIT Kanpur. He has completed executive programs from Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia Business School.
Abhay Gupta
Director
abhay.gupta@ashoka.edu.in
Akshi Chawla
Editor
akshi.chawla@ashoka.edu.inAkshi serves as the Editor at the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, Ashoka University. ...
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Dhruvika Dhamija
Predoctoral Fellow
dhruvika.dhamija@ashoka.edu.inDhruvika Dhamija is currently a Predoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Data and Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
mayukh.nair@ashoka.edu.inMayukh serves as the Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Kaustav Dutta
Data Manager
kaustav.dutta@ashoka.edu.inKaustav serves as the Deputy Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Akshi Chawla
Editor
akshi.chawla@ashoka.edu.inAkshi serves as the Associate Editor and the Senior Program Manager at the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis, Ashoka University.
Dhruvika Dhamija
Predoctoral Fellow
dhruvika.dhamija@ashoka.edu.inDhruvika Dhamija is currently a Predoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Data and Analysis at Ashoka University.
Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
mayukh.nair@ashoka.edu.inMayukh serves as a Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Mayukh graduated from Ashoka University in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science and interests in data analytics, user experience, machine learning and more recently, DevOps.
When not glued to the code editor or console, Mayukh enjoys travelling, reading non-fiction and long form articles, exploring new spots and restaurants, and quizzing.
Kaustav Dutta
Data Manager
kaustav.dutta@ashoka.edu.inKaustav serves as a Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Kaustav graduated from Ashoka University with a Master's degree in Economics and holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. He is particularly interested in machine learning, sports analytics and visualization.
He would never leave an opportunity to participate in music sessions and sports.
Interns
Soumil Agarwal
Winter 2021
Gaurav Manchanda
Winter 2021
Ujjawal Bhaskar
Winter 2021
Vivaan Gupta
Summer 2021
Vibhav Khandelwal
Winter 2021
Sejal Yadav
Summer 2021
Tanish Bafna
Summer 2021
Satyakin Kohli
Summer 2021
Sagara Ann Johny
Summer 2021
Ishaan Bansal
Summer 2020
Astha Wagle
Summer 2020
Daksh Walia
Summer 2020
