Neha Kumar is a senior research fellow in the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Neha is an economist by training and has an accumulated expertise that spans the diverse sectors of agriculture, social protection, gender and nutrition-focused programs. Since joining IFPRI in 2008 she has been involved in several complex and multidimensional impact evaluations, including of social protection programs like the Productive Safety Nets Program in Ethiopia, agriculture-nutrition interventions such as the Harvest Plus funded biofortified Orange Sweet Potato program in Uganda and Mozambique and the Improved Vegetables and Fish Technology Intervention in Bangladesh. She has expertise and substantial experience with using state of the art econometric techniques for impact evaluation. She has several years of survey design and field work management in different countries and contexts.  She currently leads a portfolio of projects in India and Bangladesh examining the linkages between agriculture, nutrition and gender. Neha holds a PhD in economics from Boston University. 

Languages spoken: English, Hindi