Sananda Satpathy

Sana Satpathy is a Policy Manager at J-PAL South Asia, where she leads the Social Protection sector. Under this mandate, she engages with governments, civil society organisations and the private sector to forge new research partnerships, disseminate insights from global evidence and catalyse evidence use within the sector. Sana also leads J-PAL's partnership with the Government of Odisha to institutionalize evidence-informed policymaking in the state.

Prior to J-PAL, she has worked as a Consultant in KPMG's Government Advisory Practice, in which she advised the Government of Maharashtra on business regulatory reforms. She has also worked as a Partnerships Consultant with the Tata Trusts.

Sana holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkley's Goldman School of Public Policy, a Master of Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Economics from Fergusson College, University of Pune.