I turn population data into the investments and policy frameworks that shape
how nations plan for their people. My work sits at the intersection of
rigorous evidence and global decision-making: translating
what the data reveals into the programs that governments and institutions
actually use.
With twenty years of experience, I've spent my career bridging the gap between
research and impact. During my eight years at USAID,
I served as the Agency's chief demographic expert, helping direct a $350M
investment portfolio and providing strategic oversight for surveys and censuses
that shaped global policy on family planning and reproductive health.
Today, I advise at the highest levels of global policy.
At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
I am part of a strategic initiative on India's demographic dividend, identifying
structural constraints that limit the country's potential and the policy levers
that can unlock it.
At the William H. Gates Sr. Institute
at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, I am helping
develop strategy to ensure governments design programs with demographic futures
at the forefront.
At the Population Reference Bureau, I help shape how
demographic evidence is communicated to policymakers and the public.
And as a member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council,
I help the group on the demographic dimensions of gender equality and global
development. My goal is the same: ensuring governments plan for their
demographic futures.
I also write a Substack called Demography Matters, where I make
the case, one country at a time, that population data is not an abstraction—it
is the foundation of every strategic decision that touches a human life.
