Sowmya Dhanaraj is a Senior Research Fellow at Good Business Lab. She was previously a Faculty of Economics at Madras School of Economics. She completed her Ph.D. at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai in 2017. She also completed her Masters at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Bachelors at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) - Pilani, Goa Campus. She had been a visiting scholar at United Nations University - World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in 2017 and did her PhD internship at UNU-WIDER in 2013.
Her research interests include Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics, focusing on labour, gender, health and education issues. Her core teaching expertise includes Mathematical Statistics, Econometric Methods, Applied Micro-Econometrics, Applied Multivariate Statistics.
She has been appointed as an expert committee member of State Planning Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu that was set up to draft the state policy on education and employment.
She has co-won the 2024 ICIMOD-SANDEE grant, The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, 2023, 2022 SAR Gender Innovation Lab Fellowship of World Bank, and Emergent Ventures grant (2020 and 2022) and 2020 APU research funding.
