Dr. Rajesh Raushan

Over one and a half decades, Dr. Raushan's contribution to academic research, teaching, policy research, programme evaluation, and nurturing researchers & practitioners is remarkable. He brings together research, evidence, equity, innovation, and institutional development while fostering collaboration among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, communities, and development partners. His efforts to develop emerging researchers, strengthen knowledge systems, mobilise resources, and create pathways through which high-quality evidence can contribute to meaningful and measurable development outcomes. His vision is to strengthen the interface between rigorous research and real-world decision-making by bringing together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and development organisations.

His extensive experience and credentials in designing research, shaping methodology, evaluating progress, and measuring impact, along with robustness and scientific rigour in collating and synthesising evidence to inform policy and shape programmes, are highly acknowledged. He was a member of the technical advisory committee to measure district-level MPI and child poverty estimates in Uttar Pradesh. He also supported and contributed in first ever evaluation study of NRHM, developed multidimensional vulnerability index to identify ultra poor under Zero Poverty Abhiyan, district ranking for devolution index for the State Finance Commission, methodology and analytical frame for MSME contribution in employment, indirect estimation methodology for egg production, evidence synthesis for climate resilience in high altitude Himalaya etc.

Dr. Raushan holds a PhD in Development Studies with specialisation in Population Studies and Health from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, and has undertaken advanced training in Population Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS). His research interests include demography, health and nutrition, regional & social inequalities, gender & empowerment, marginalised and tribal population, neighbourhood effect, poverty, human development, labour & employment, rural development and sustainable development goals.