Lauren Bisio is a Program Manager at the Yale Economic Growth Center. She supports a broad portfolio of research projects and related policy engagement activities for EGC affiliates, including grants management, resource allocation, and collaboration …

Hemawathy Balarama was a Tobin Center / Economics Pre-Doctoral Fellow working with Professor Rohini Pande at the Yale Economic Growth Centre (EGC). She worked on projects under the Inclusion Economics initiative at EGC. Hema is currently involved in the …

Atl is an undergraduate communications and editorial intern at the Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC) studying Political Science at Yale College. He provides administrative support to the communications director by managing EGC's website, ensuring the …

Lelan is a senior studying Economics & Mathematics and an undergraduate intern at Yale Inclusion Economics, where she supports data analytics in the PayDash project. She was previously a Tobin RA at EGC working on gender and labor market outcomes for …

Natalia Rigol is the Buchanan Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests …

Vaishnavi Krishna Mohan graduated in 2025 with a Master's in International Development Economics. Prior to Yale, she completed her undergraduate studies at Ahmedabad University, where she majored in Economics and minored in Mathematics. She assisted Dr. …

Vidhi Bhartiya (Yale College, Jonathan Edwards ’27) is pursuing a double major in Economics and Global Affairs. As an Economic Research Intern at Inclusion Economics, she supports the department’s research projects and her interests include studying how …

Alina Vaidya Mahadevan (Yale College, Morse ’27) is pursuing a double major in Economics and Global Affairs. As an Economic Research Intern at Inclusion Economics, she supports Dr. Rohini Pande's research. In addition, Alina is leading the Foreign Policy …

Nina Buchmann was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics during the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Her primary fields are development economics and behavioral economics. She is …

Luke Strathmann is a Senior Writer, Editor, and Communications Officer, working across the Department of Economics and its three research centers. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Slackjaw, 251, and the Weekly …

Lisa Ho was a Postdoctoral Associate within the Inclusion Economics research initiative at the Yale Economic Growth Center and Macmillan Center during the 2024-25 academic year. Lisa graduated with a PhD in Economics from MIT in June 2024. She studies …

Austin Bodetti,   Jackson School class of 2026, is a Master in Public Policy in Global Affairs candidate, where he is studying the role that computer programming and quantitative research can play in policymaking. He has a particular interest in projects …