Aishwarya serves as the Deputy Director of the Economic Growth Center since March 2022. Prior to EGC, Aishwarya managed research and evaluation investments for the Gates Foundation’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Services for the Poor teams. …

Development Economics Communications Intern: Summer 2022 IDE Research Assistant: Fall 2021 and Spring 2022   From nourishing my interest in neighbouring social sciences to allowing me to learn from leading academics, the IDE program gave me the chance to …

Meghana Mungikar is a Senior Research Manager at Yale's Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics, where she will support projects on climate, energy, and environment. Prior to joining, Meghana worked as a Research Manager at Princeton University's …

Yuanhao You is a master's student in Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. Prior to Yale, he completed his undergraduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he double majored in mathematics and minor in economics. Yuanhao has a deep interest about …

Megan Wright (Yale College, Ezra Stiles '26) is pursuing an economics major with a certificate in Persian & Iranian Studies. A retired professional dancer and alumna of the City University of New York's School of Labor & Urban Studies, Megan is interested …

Jeff Mosenkis is an economics to English translator who focuses on explaining the implications of research to non-economists— often policymakers, journalists, or the public. He began at New York Public Radio on the Freakonomics podcast, then came to New …

Binta Zahra Diop was a Kuznets Postdoctoral Associate at the EGC during the 2024-2025 Academic Year, working on topics in development economics in Africa. Binta’s work aims to understand migration and location choices of people under constraints, both …

Jonathan Bower is a Senior Research Manager with the Economic Growth Center. He has 13 years of development economics and policy research experience, including eight years in Rwanda and three years in Fiji. In Rwanda, Jonathan was a Research Director for …

Sam Salwan is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Economic Growth Center working with Professor Rohini Pande within Yale Inclusion Economics on projects related to climate, labor, and social protection in South Asia. Prior to joining EGC, they worked with the …

Tingting is the Registrar for the International and Development Economics (IDE) master’s program and also serves as a Senior Administrative Assistant at EGC. Prior to joining Yale, she spent eight years working in international education consulting, …