Applied economist working across research and evaluation on agriculture, water, and rural livelihoods.
About
I am an agricultural and natural resources economist who works in two connected registers: academic research on the economics of irrigation, water, and rural livelihoods, and independent evaluation and policy work for international development organisations.
My research examines how investments in agricultural water management, mechanisation, and risk management shape farm productivity, household welfare, and the distribution of economic opportunity across gender, caste, and class. It has appeared in Nature Sustainability, World Development, Environmental Research Letters, and Water Policy, among others.
Alongside this, I lead mixed-methods evaluations, impact assessments, and survey research for major donors and UN agencies, grounded in OECD DAC and UNEG standards, contribution analysis, and household surveys at scale. I trained at Oregon State University (PhD, Applied Economics) and Whitman College, with substantial fieldwork across Nepal, India, Ghana, Kenya, and the Pacific.
What I do
I combine the analytical discipline of applied economics with the practical demands of donor-funded evaluation, working from research design through fieldwork to policy-facing recommendations.
Clients & partners
See selected assignments for recent evaluation and policy-research engagements.