Saravanan M
Saravanan M is a Junior Administrator at Dvara Research. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Corporate Secretaryship from A.M Jain College. Before joining Dvara Research, Saravanan worked as a Processing Executive on the Dedupe project at Axis Bank, where he honed his skills in data processing and project management. Outside of his professional […]
Madhavi Deshpande
Madhavi is a Program Officer for the Customer Protection Program housed under the Centre for Customer Protection at Dvara Research. She has prior experience in project management and monitoring. Before joining Dvara Research she worked at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Bangalore as a Project Assistant. Madhavi has a master’s degree in environmental science and technology […]
Navaneeth M S
Navaneeth is a Research Associate with the Financial Systems Design Initiative at Dvara Research. He graduated with an Integrated Masters in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and his area of interest lies in addressing the multifaceted issues of inequality. Driven by his dedication to development-oriented research, Navaneeth has gained valuable experience […]
Shree Harini V
Shree Harini V, is an Research Associate at Dvara Research. She is an Econometrics post graduate from University of Madras with a Diploma in Data Science from IIT Madras with notable achievements such as UGC-NET(Economics) and GATE 2021 (All India Rank 95). Proficient in STATA, SPSS, R Programming, and Python, she has served as an […]
Dr. Indradeep Ghosh
Dr. Indradeep Ghosh is the Executive Director of Dvara Research. He has a PhD from MIT, an MA from Cambridge University (where he won the Adam Smith Prize given to the top graduating student in the university), and a BA from St. Stephen’s College, all in Economics. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Ghosh pursued an […]
Sowmini G Prasad
Sowmini is a Senior Research Associate with the Financial Systems Design initiative at Dvara Research. Her research focuses on the design of regulatory frameworks that govern India’s financial markets and customer protection in financial services. She also contributes to the organization’s research efforts on India’s health systems. Sowmini holds a master’s degree in public policy […]
Priyadarshini Ganesan
Priyadarshini is a Senior Research Associate with focus on household finance. She has previously worked as Executive Officer with ECGC Ltd in the field of export credit insurance and as a Research Associate with IFMR LEAD in the theme of financial inclusion of rural households. Priya holds a Master’s in Economics from Madras School of […]
Niyati Agrawal
Niyati is a Senior Research Associate with the Household Finance Research Initiative. 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 worked with the Ministry of Commerce […]
Misha Sharma
Misha leads the Household Finance Practice at Dvara Research. In this role she focuses on identifying key research gaps in the field of household finance and building evidence to inform market practices and design of financial sector policy. Misha specialises in policy research and advocacy in the domain of financial inclusion. She has several years […]
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 Research 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, […]
