World Bank, Washington D.C.                                                                                  August 2026-Present

Economist

Macro-Fiscal & Public Finance Analysis

• Led analytical work and co-authored Country Economic Memorandums, Country Economic Updates, and Public Finance Reviews across multiple countries

• Conducted debt sustainability analyses for a few countries

• Prepared Macro-Poverty Outlook assessments for countries

• Supported development policy operations in many countries, including technical assistance on tax reform

• Built macroeconomic simulations using long-term growth and macro-fiscal models for many countries

• Assessed the distributional impact of VAT reforms on households for a country using national household consumption survey data

State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) & Fiscal Risk Management

• Led technical assistance on SOE database management, fiscal risk assessment, and debt vulnerability analysis in countries

• Conducted cross-country SOE fiscal risk assessments in countries, supporting efforts to integrate SOE liabilities into public debt transparency frameworks

• Contributed the fiscal risk module for an upcoming cross-country SOE benchmarking report

Public Investment & Financial Management Innovation

• Leading development of the forthcoming World Public Financial Management (PFM) Report

• Designed and developed digital tools to help countries strengthen public investment and asset management, including an AI-driven governance and operations analytics tool, an e-cost-benefit analysis tool, and a portfolio rationalization tool

• Built an AI-driven tool to help countries classify and tag climate-related budget spending, and contributed to a related technical manual

• Applied public infrastructure analytics tools to assess health-service access in many countries

• Analyzed cross-country public investment management efficiency and its relationship to infrastructure quality and productivity growth

• Contributed to a global PFM data-tracking platform and led related trust-fund and international reporting initiatives

Capacity Building

• Designed and delivered weekly training sessions on statistics, econometrics, and applied AI methods

World Bank, Washington D.C. (Remote)                                                June 2022-August 2025

Consultant 

Unit Name: DFi

·  Analytical work of the International Development Association’s Development Finance (DFi) on Aid Architecture. Supported the design, update, and management of the Aid Architecture database using Tableau

·  Assisted in preparation of IDA papers, technical notes and presentations

·  Working on update and revamping of the population projections model using STATA for World Bank’s International Development Association’s graduation policy and which are also used as inputs for the finance team

·  Transitioned the above population Model from excel to STATA

·  Aided in drafting of policy briefs and analytical reports including Medium Term Review

Unit Name: EAEM1

• Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) Global Practice, Rwanda

·   Provided help for joint Report of Government of Rwanda and World Bank, the Country Economic Monitor Report 2024     for Rwanda.

·   Provided help in Drafting and supporting Rwanda's Economic Update Feb 2024 and July 2024

• Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) Global Practice, Tanzania                                                            

·   Helped in drafting Fiscal, debt, monetary and inflation sections of Tanzania’s 21st Economic Update Report

·      Helped in drafting Fiscal, debt, monetary and inflation sections of Tanzania’s 22ndEconomic Update Report

• Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (MTI) Global Practice, Zimbabwe                                                            

 · Helped in drafting Zimbabwe’s Economic Update Report, January 2025 as well as in growth projections using MFMod

  · Constructed a macroeconomic database for Zimbabwe

• MTI Uganda; Democratic Republic of Congo; Sao, Tome and Principe     

· Coordinating and evaluating DSA analysis for Uganda with the IMF, provided and compiled comments for IMF Mission visit.

· Drafting and analytical work for DRC’s Economic Update with special focus on VAT using Household Survey Data for DRC.

· Drafting and modelling work for Country Economic Memorandum for Sao, Tome and Principe.

Unit Name: PEFA

· Conduct Researh on specific aspects of relationship of PEFA assessments/ scores with other external data sources

· Translate resercah into concie and compelling narratives

Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Mumbai, India                                                  August 2012-August 2020

Assistant Adviser (Sep 2019 – Aug 2020) | Research Officer (Aug 2012 – Aug 2019)

·       Led a team of 3 researchers on India's government finance data analysis and collaborated with an 8-member research team on state finance publications.

·       Directed RBI’s flagship report, State Finances: A Study of Budgets, for three years.

·       Spearheaded the first-time compilation of quarterly general government finance statistics, contributing to India’s G20 data gap initiative.

·       Conducted policy research, econometric modeling, and data analysis for bi-monthly monetary policy meetings.

·       Published 8 research papers on fiscal policy, financial markets, and macroeconomic analysis, utilizing econometric techniques such as Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models.

·       Managed external research collaborations and funding programs for RBI.

·       Provided in-depth daily analysis of domestic and global financial markets and contributed to RBI’s Working Paper Series.

·       Mentored and trained junior colleagues, building expertise in state and central government finance analysis.

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa                                                                August 2020-Present

Graduate Research Assistant (May 2024 – Present) | Graduate Teaching Assistant (Aug 2020 – Present)

·       Conducts statistical and econometric analysis for the Miller Faculty Fellowship, applying difference-in-differences methods to evaluate literacy-targeting in Economics education.

·       Mentored undergraduate and graduate students, providing guidance on econometrics, forecasting, and data analysis.

·       Developed instructional materials on time series econometrics for an undergraduate course in Money, Banking, and Finance, incorporating Python-based applications to enhance students’ computational skills. Recognized for its clarity and effectiveness, this material has since been adopted for the department’s master’s-level Macroeconomics course.

·       Played a key role in organizing the department’s first AI/ML workshop for economists. This initiative has introduced graduate students to AI applications in economic forecasting, policy evaluation, and financial modeling, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and broadening the department’s research scope.

·       Assisted instructors with curriculum development, graded assignments, and led review sessions.

• ICRIER, New Delhi, India                                                                                                    May-November 2008

     Intern 

·  Data analysis and econometric modelling at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

·  Assisted in a rolling window model of time series forecasting