Rahul Sharma
Director Of Impact & Learning at Indus Action
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolRahul Sharma is an impact-driven researcher and leader with 11 years of experience at the intersection of public institutions, social protection, and quantitative evaluation, now serving as Director of Impact & Learning at Indus Action and a Research Fellow at UCL. He pairs rigorous quantitative methods and monitoring & evaluation expertise with hands-on policy experience from roles at Centre for Policy Research, UN Environment Programme, and multiple research institutes. Trained as a PhD researcher at UC Santa Barbara and with an MPP from the University of Minnesota, he translates complex data into actionable reforms for human resources and administrative systems. Unusually for a policy leader, he also brings quantitative finance and trading-platform skills from his work as a quantitative researcher, enabling novel approaches to portfolio-style optimization of program resources. Based in Delhi, he combines academic publishing and applied advisory work to drive evidence-based change across governments and NGOs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., B.E. at R. V. College of Engineering, BangalorePostgraduate Fellow, Postgraduate Fellow at Yale UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, Hindi
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
r2rahul/scientificcomputing
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes in 6 years 11 months
r2rahul/r2rahul.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:34 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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