Anisha Sharma

Anisha Sharma is Associate Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. She is a development economist with research interests in labour economics, the economics of health and education, and public policy, with an interest in gender gaps across these dimensions.  She is a co-lead of the Employment and Labour vertical of the Isaac Centre for Public Policy. She is also an invited researcher at J-PAL. Her work has been supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, IZA, and Centre for Economic Policy Research, among others.

Anisha received a PhD in Economics, an MSc in Economics for Development and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She holds a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

Before Ashoka, as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, she worked as an economist in South Africa’s National Treasury on developing policies to preserve macro-prudential stability in the banking and financial system, in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.