Sharanya Rajiv is a research analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her research focuses on governance, climate resilience, food security, and development issues in Central Asia. Prior to IFPRI, she managed grants and special projects at Atalan Tech, a startup that provides predictive analytics to mitigate burnout and turnover among providers and other healthcare workers. Previously she was a social development consultant at the World Bank office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and worked at the New Delhi center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Sharanya holds a Master in Public Policy in Global Affairs from Yale University and a Bachelors with honors in Political Science from the University of Delhi. She also speaks Hindi, Tamil, and Russian.