Megha Pradhan

Megha Pradhan is the Associate Director of Training at J-PAL South Asia and the Director of CLEAR South Asia, a global initiative for evaluation capacity development coordinated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. In this role, she leads efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacities and systems and the use of evidence in the region through long term government partnerships, trainings and advisory services. She provides technical and strategic direction to J-PAL South Asia’s capacity building partnerships with state and central governments, including the Development Monitoring & Evaluation Office (DMEO) at NITI Aayog, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), LBSNAA and others. She also leads the scale-up of an evidence-based early childhood education program with different state governments in India. 

 Prior to joining J-PAL South Asia in 2015, Megha was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delhi. She has also worked with the National Knowledge Commission, an advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, with the objective of transforming India into a knowledge economy. Megha holds a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a second Masters in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.