Dr. Sunaina Dhingra is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy. Her research interests are in the area of development economics, health economics, education, and public policy. Before joining JGU, she was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the Tata Cornell Institute (TCI) in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. She completed her PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, the University of Delhi, in 2018. Sunaina’s current research addresses questions broadly related to health, nutrition, and educational outcomes and how they interface with poverty reduction. She has extensive fieldwork experience in the villages of Bihar for her PhD dissertation, which evaluates the principal drivers of nutritional and education outcomes for children in rural India in general and for girls in particular. At TCI, her research analyzed the drivers of child stunting and other forms of undernutrition, including new concerns on rising adult overweight and obesity issues in developing countries. Apart from these topics, she is working on the role of women’s bargaining power in intra-household decision-making and how it may influence gender bias in human capital investments in children. Through her research, she has contributed to and is building on the understanding of nutrition and educational challenges in India with a special focus on the disadvantaged and vulnerable population. Along with research, Sunaina has mentored PhD and other graduate students at Cornell University in developing research and planning field visits. She also brings wide-ranging undergraduate- and graduate-level teaching experience to JGU. She has taught courses at IIM Rohtak, the Delhi School of Economics, and various undergraduate colleges at Delhi University. Sunaina earned her BA (H) in Economics from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, the University of Delhi, in 2007 and an MA in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2009.