Biography
Saurabh Sinha is the Chief, Social Policy Section in the Gender, Poverty & Social Policy Division. He has a PhD from IDS Sussex and more than 25 years of international economic research, teaching, and policy advisory experience in the broad field of social policy including poverty and inequality reduction, employment, social protection, population dynamics, migration, youth and ageing.
Prior to joining ECA in 2015, Saurabh was Senior Economist with UNDP in Mongolia and has worked with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNDP Viet Nam, and as a consultant to various UNDP Country Offices, the World Bank and bilateral donors. He has published extensively in international journals and at various times has taught development economics at Sussex University; National Economics University, Hanoi; and IIT, Delhi.