Appointments
2023- World Bank Group, Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, Washington D.C.
2021-23 World Bank Group, Senior Economist, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C.
2019- Affiliated Scholar, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
2017-21 World Bank Group, Economist, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C.
2016-17 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and the Department of Earth System Science
Education
2016 Dual-Ph.D. Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (AEREC) & Demography,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2010 M.S. Economics, Boston College, Boston, MA
2009 M.A. Economics, University of Mumbai, India [Gold Medalist, Rank 1st]
2007 B.A. Economics and Statistics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India [ Merit Honor]
Research Fields
Environmental & Agricultural Economics, Water Resources, Development, Food Security, Climate Change, Demography
Skills
Computer Packages: Stata, R, ArcGIS, GeoDa, GAMS, LaTeX, MSOffice
Languages: English (Native), Hindi (Native), Gujarati (Fluent), Marathi (Intermediate), French (basic)
Honors and Awards
2015- 2016 M.E. John Applied Research Endowment Award
Pennsylvania State University, for outstanding achievement in applied research
2015 Energy, Environmental Economics & Policy Initiative (EEEPI) Travel Award, Pennsylvania State University
2015 Winner, Poster Session at Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference
2015 1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014 Nomination and acceptance to Gamma Sigma Delta
2014 1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014 Full Scholarship, EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
2014 Graduate Student Travel Award, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
2014 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference Scholarship Award
2012 Future Leaders Forum Fellowship, Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Pennsylvania State University
AEREC 597B - Computational Economics, Spring 2014, 2015
CED 201- Introduction to Environmental & Resource Economics, Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Boston College
EC 202 - Macroeconomics Theory, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Mentorship
Mentor to high school student, Stanford Earth Young Investigators program, Summer 2017
Academic Service
Summer Methodology Workshop Committee, Demography Program, PSU, 2014-15
Demography Graduate Advisory Committee, PSU, 2013-14
2023- World Bank Group, Senior Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, Washington D.C.
2021-23 World Bank Group, Senior Economist, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C.
2019- Affiliated Scholar, Stanford University, Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
2017-21 World Bank Group, Economist, Water Global Practice, Washington D.C.
2016-17 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and the Department of Earth System Science
Education
2016 Dual-Ph.D. Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (AEREC) & Demography,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2010 M.S. Economics, Boston College, Boston, MA
2009 M.A. Economics, University of Mumbai, India [Gold Medalist, Rank 1st]
2007 B.A. Economics and Statistics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India [ Merit Honor]
Research Fields
Environmental & Agricultural Economics, Water Resources, Development, Food Security, Climate Change, Demography
Skills
Computer Packages: Stata, R, ArcGIS, GeoDa, GAMS, LaTeX, MSOffice
Languages: English (Native), Hindi (Native), Gujarati (Fluent), Marathi (Intermediate), French (basic)
Honors and Awards
2015- 2016 M.E. John Applied Research Endowment Award
Pennsylvania State University, for outstanding achievement in applied research
2015 Energy, Environmental Economics & Policy Initiative (EEEPI) Travel Award, Pennsylvania State University
2015 Winner, Poster Session at Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference
2015 1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014 Nomination and acceptance to Gamma Sigma Delta
2014 1st place, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Research Expo-Social Science Division
2014 Full Scholarship, EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
2014 Graduate Student Travel Award, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
2014 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference Scholarship Award
2012 Future Leaders Forum Fellowship, Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Pennsylvania State University
AEREC 597B - Computational Economics, Spring 2014, 2015
CED 201- Introduction to Environmental & Resource Economics, Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Boston College
EC 202 - Macroeconomics Theory, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Mentorship
Mentor to high school student, Stanford Earth Young Investigators program, Summer 2017
Academic Service
Summer Methodology Workshop Committee, Demography Program, PSU, 2014-15
Demography Graduate Advisory Committee, PSU, 2013-14