Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Anjali Nambiar

Anjali Nambiar Dvara

Anjali is a Research Associate in the Social Protection Initiative vertical at Dvara Research. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. At Dvara Research, her work revolves around the design of social protection systems, health […]

Amulya Neelam

Amulya Neelam Dvara

Amulya is a Senior Research Associate in the Financial Systems Design initiative. Her research focuses on understanding and improving access to suitable financial services for all, especially low-income households. Her work aims to enable the creation of a regulatory framework that fosters both meaningful inclusion and financial stability. Amulya holds a Master’s in Rural Management […]

Aishwarya Narayan

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 Mukherjee Dvara

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 […]