Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Sagar Choudhury

Sagar Choudhury Dvara

Sagar is a Senior Manager – Finance & Compliance at Dvara Research. He holds an MBA in Finance & Marketing from Amity University, Uttar Pradesh and LLB from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. With close to ten years of experience in accounts and finance management, his competencies lie in mainstreaming real time solutions in financial management that strengthens […]

Ranjitha Vijaykumar

Ranjitha is the Communications Associate at Dvara Research. Her role entails managing the organisation’s communication channels, and most importantly she is the custodian of the website that houses all the research outputs since inception. Ranjitha has been with Dvara Research for over eight years. She began her career as an Administrative Manager, supporting the operational […]

Priyadarshini Ganesan

Priyadarshini Ganesan Dvara

Priyadarshini Ganesan is Research Manager – Climate & Agri Finance at Dvara Research, where she studies the role of financial systems in advancing inclusive and sustainable development, with a particular focus on agriculture and climate action. Her research explores how financial access can be translated into meaningful improvements in the lives of low-income and climate-vulnerable populations. […]

Misha Sharma

Misha Sharma Dvara

Misha is the Lead of Dvara Research. In this role she leads the research agenda at Dvara Research and supports the organisation with policy advocacy towards shaping the financial system around the needs and realities of low-income households and enterprises. Misha has over a decade’s experience in financial inclusion policy research and advocacy and has […]

Govindan S

Gonindan S Dvara

Govindan is an executive assistant to the team lead. He also maintains a well-functioning office environment while providing administrative support. Previously, he worked as HR & Admin at Radiant Cash Management Pvt. Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Dhanraj Baid Jain College.

Dwijaraj Bhattacharya

Dwijaraj heads the Financial Systems Design Initiative. His work focuses on households’ access to credit and impediments therein. His research interests include the legislative and regulatory frameworks governing providers, regulators, and other entities in the financial sector. His work also focuses on personal insolvency and bankruptcy. Dwijaraj holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the […]

Aishwarya Iyer

Aishwarya Narayan Dvara

Aishwarya is a Senior Research Associate at Dvara Research. She is passionate about building welfare systems that are equitably accessible for all and redistributive in nature. Aishwarya’s areas of research and advocacy include digitisation in social protection, last-mile delivery systems, and grievance redress mechanisms in digital finance and social protection. An overarching theme across her […]

Abhishek Mukherjee

Abhishek is a Research Associate with the Social Protection Initiative. He takes keen interest in mobility, spatial analysis, and rural development. Prior to Dvara Research, he was working as a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he worked on developing sustainable framework for gold mining as an opportunity for rural development in […]