Nishat Akter Juy

Nishat is currently working as a Consultant at Columbia Business School (CBS). Previously she worked at Innovations for Poverty Action as a Research Associate for three years, where she supported several experimental and quasi-experimental studies namely on education, employment local environmental risks, and health care. She spent another year at the NGO Forum for Public Health as a Consultant and helped to manage data flow and implement randomized control trials. She completed Bachelor in Urban and Regional Planning from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. Her lived experience in an underdeveloped community mostly inspired her to find resolutions for socio-economic challenges. She is primarily interested in labor economics, weak state capacity, and poverty alleviation.