I am a second year comparative politics major and a methods minor with a focus on South Asian politics. I am interested in variations in sub-national party politics, political institutions and the state-owned sector in India. I am currently studying differences in the behavior of state legislatures in India, the effects of political party organization on party systems and the role of elites in the implementation of independent election commissions. My larger goal is to understand what explains variations in party systems in Indian states and elsewhere in the developing world.  

Prior to starting the PhD, I worked with the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS-Lokniti) in India as an Associate Fellow. My most significant project with them was the development and implementation of a survey intended to measure democratic governance by assessing citizen experience with and perception of public services in India. In that time,  I also worked with the World Bank on a project assessing the performance of state-owned enterprises in India in the post-liberalization period.  Before heading to India, I worked for several years as a researcher with the Economist Intelligence Unit In Hong Kong and Singapore studying the political-economy of South and South-East Asian countries. 

I have a masters degree in public policy from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in business and economics from the National University of Singapore. When I am not grappling with all things political I am usually travelling, reading historical crime fiction, cooking or playing with my dogs.