Rishabh Misra

• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative research to deliver economic policy analysis.
• Generated fiscal impact with data collection for forecasting macroeconomic and financial conditions in Zambia
• Translated economic evidence-based findings into comprehensible narrative to communicate policy and project development.

Project: Bolo by Google (Learn to read by using your Voice)

● Conducted qualitative and quantitative field based research and surveys, covering over 200 children across Gurgaon in 17 villages

● Conducted user experience research through pilot sessions using proto app builds and provided detailed reports to the product team

● Analyzed data of user intonations received from user device in internal firebase software

• Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
• Planned, modified and executed research techniques, procedures and tests.

● Developed Speech based tutor app built with AI

Project: Evaluation of policies on Integrated Rehabilitation Cure for Addiction (IRCA) for Ministry of Social Justice& Empowerment

● Supervised field team in collection of data from 400 IRCA Centre’s covering 8000 beneficiaries

● Analyzed primary research data collected from pan India using SPSS for Integrated Rehabilitation Cure for Addiction and Policy evaluation

● Authored report on “Integrated Rehabilitation Cure for Addiction” providing recommendations to improve functioning of IRCAs

● All recommendations have been incorporated in Union Budget 2018-19

Project: “Assessment of expenditure & procurement pattern of cooking fuel in rural Indian households” for MOPNG

● Selected states for primary survey through systematic Random Sampling Method

● Designed questionnaire for primary survey on prioritized use of cooking fuel in India

● Supervised the field team comprising of 35 associates in data collection for survey covering 103,000 Ujjwala beneficiaries

● Analyzed the collected research data and derived recommendations to enhance the coverage of the scheme

● Provided recommendations to help increase coverage of scheme from 5 0 Mn to 80Mn beneficiaries that have been adopted by the ministry

Project: Heinrich Boll Stiftung Resource Food and Housing

● Primary and secondary data analysis on affordable housing demand and supply in Indian States

● Conducted critical and current situation analysis under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Scheme by meetings with secretaries, chief engineers and urban planners o f state housing bodies of 7 states responsible for providing affordable housing in India

● Co-authored research paper on “Understanding Affordable Housing in India”

Project: Mainstreaming Sustainable Social Housing in India Project (MAs-SHIP) on Affordable Housing- “UN Habitat”

● Assessed housing demand and supply in India under 7 indicators by using PCA method on SPSS tool

● Conducted primary research on sustainability of economic reforms in housing policies of 4 states of India

● Designed economic model for sustainability index and evaluation of housing policies in Indian states

Project: Heinrich Böll Stiftung Resource Food and Housing

● Secondary research and data analysis of time series patterns in farmer income, minimum support prices and impact of FPO’S

● Conducted stake holder meetings with CEOs of Farmer Producers Organization to assess their role in Agri business and crop sales assistance to small and marginal farmers

● Co-authored case study on best practices in Farmer Producers Organization

Project: ‘Trends and Patterns of Urbanization in India’

● Analyzed unit data of town classification from Census of India (2011) to identify Urbanization trends related to social, economic and infrastructure indicators of states using principal component analysis technique using SPSS tool

● Authored a paper titled ‘Urbanomics in India’ highlighting the key findings of the above research