Dr. Niranjan Saggurti, PhD, a demographer, statistician and public health researcher with more than 20 years of experience in program and policy oriented research and evaluations with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health in India. Dr. Saggurti currently provides technical and strategic oversight to Council’s research, evaluation and implementation science work. Prior to this, Dr. Saggurti worked as Senior Program Officer with the Measurement, Learning and Evaluation team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently, he is on several core committees of the Indian government, including India FP2020, Ending PMTCT, RMNCAH Coalition and provides technical advisory to a number of research-based NGOs in New Delhi. Dr. Saggurti has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has implemented numerous interventions testing their efficacy and sustainability.

Anil Paul, a management graduate, is a result-oriented, seasoned corporate strategist and a management professional. Paul has held senior management positions for over 30 years in the public and non-profit sectors. In addition to his board responsibilities, he serves as Director of Administration, Finance & Human Resources with Population Council, India. He has led the operations of Population Council for over two decades and has provided leadership during major organizational changes and restructuring at the local level.

Radhika Dayal is a public health practitioner and qualitative researcher with a decade of research and management experience. She conducts multi-component mixed method evaluations that focus on issues like reducing child marriage and teenage pregnancy; increasing comprehensive sexuality education and increasing female employment in India. She has extensive experience in project management and is proficient in conducting qualitative studies, systematic reviews, and evidence synthesis on girls’ empowerment, gender-based violence, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She has experience in using different monitoring and evaluation approaches like conducting impact and process evaluation, and using participatory research methods like mystery clients and youth engagement.

Prior to joining the Population Council as Technical Specialist, Radhika worked with John Snow Inc. (JSI), India office and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Radhika holds a Masters in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology, Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, PHFI.

Raman Mishra is a data scientist trained in Biostatistics and Demography. Raman has extensive experience of data management, analysis and predictive modelling. He is well versed in the use of statistical softwares like Python, R, STATA, and SPSS. He has worked on data from multiple countries and has expertise in the application of advanced statistical analysis such as latent class/profile analysis, multilevel modelling, and geo-spatial analysis. Besides being a number cruncher, Raman is adept in scientific writing. He has authored peer-reviewed journal articles on non-communicable diseases, social capital and disability. His areas of interest are ageing, family planning, poverty, and climate change.

Nizamuddin Khan has a PhD in population studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai and two Master’s degrees in Statistics with Computer Programming, and Population Studies (MPS). His 20+ years of experience includes health program evaluations, operations research design, development of M&E systems for health interventions, and quantitative data analysis using SPSS and STATA. He has several years of experience coordinating the large-scale surveys, initially with the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and District Level Household Surveys (DLHS), and recently leading the field implementation of Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) in India. He has several publications to his credit. He also worked with the World Bank, IIPS, Futures Group International in the past leading the implementation of research studies in the field.

Madhusudana Battala, PhD., a geographer by education and demographer by profession.

He has close to two decades of research experience in the fields of family planning, gender based violence, community mobilization interventions planning and programs evaluations. He was a National Working Group member for Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey, under the direction of National AIDS Control Organization. Prior to joining the Council, he worked with WHO-SEARO and International Institute for Population Sciences. He has hands-on experience in training and building capacity in qualitative techniques, participatory research methods, analysis and data management.

Nayan is an Economist by training and has over six years of research experience in public health and education and well versed with quantitative research skills. She holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Planning and Development with a specialization in health economics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. She completed MSc. in Economics in Environment and Natural Resources Economics from TERI University, Delhi. Prior to joining PC Consulting, she worked as a health economist at Oxford Policy Management Pvt. Ltd., where she trained herself in health systems research and evaluation methods. She has worked as Senior Research Associate at ASER Centre, the research and evaluation unit of the Pratham Education Foundation. She started her career as an assistant professor of Economics at Glocal University and then joined as a consultant at Global Health Strategies (GHS).

Bishwajit is a qualified professional with demonstrated leadership in the development sector for 12 years. He is a management and analytics professional working in the domain of Public Health. He has diverse  experience in the field of  planning, designing, leading, coordinating, liasoning and implementation for maternal and child health programs across the states of Jharkhand and Bihar.

Dr. Sudeshna Maitra is an evaluation specialist. Prior to this, Dr. Maitra was a research associate at the National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Rural Development, Hyderabad.

She is well versed with econometrics and other evaluation tools and is trained in handling large datasets. She completed her PhD in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2020. She also holds an M.Phil in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research domain includes gender economics, household behaviour and family economics, education, gender and nutrition, agriculture and rural development.