Nara Sritharan

Nara Sritharan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at AidData, where she conducts quantitative analysis of a number of development topics. Her primary research interests are foreign aid, geospatial analysis, China's impact in the Global South, and conflict.

Prior to joining AidData, Nara completed her PhD in Economics at UMass Amherst. Her dissertation was on the political economy of peace and conflict, in particular peacebuilding and ethnic reconciliation in conflict/post-conflict countries. Nara is a Steering Committee member and Co-Founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), and maintains affiliations with Security in Context and Human Security Lab.