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Sangita Vyas is an applied microeconomist specializing in development economics and demography. She teaches an undergraduate course in statistics and a PhD course in demographic methods. She was previously the Associate Director of Sanitation at Rice Institute where she conducted experimental and observational research on sanitation and advocated for better sanitation policies in India. Prior to Rice, Sangita worked with the Centre for Microfinance, where she oversaw a randomised evaluation of a rainfall insurance programme implemented by the Self-Employed Women’s Association in Gujarat. She is a co-author of a systematic review of index-based micro-insurance for managing weather-related risk.

Sangita holds a BS with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MPA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.