Arushi Bedi

Arushi Bedi is a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL South Asia where she works on the scale-ups team. As part of her portfolio, Arushi leads the scaling up of interventions that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluations. She leads the efforts on scaling up the Gender Equity Curriculum and the Boosting Immunization Demand program by working with senior policy makers, implementation organizations, policy experts and donors to test different pathways to scale up the intervention through the central and state governments in India. She also manages the ASPIRE grant housed under J-PAL SA which focuses on funding government-led scale-ups across themes including education, social inclusion, health and environment.  

Before joining J-PAL, she worked with different state and district governments on implementation of flagship programs including National Nutrition Mission, Swatch Bharat Mission, National Rural Livelihoods Missions, National Health Mission and National action plan for air pollution. She also worked as a Health Policy reporter with Outlook Magazine before joining the development sector,

Arushi holds a Masters in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and another Masters in Media and Communications from Symbiosis Institute.