Yamini Mishra, Executive Director

Yamini, currently the Executive Director of CBGA, started working in 2005 in the capacity of the Coordinator of the Centre. She has taken keen interest in developing all aspects of CBGA's work-- its advocacy, research as well as its admin and finance procedures.

Although Yamini has been associated with diverse national, regional and international organisations in the past, the axis of her work has been on women's rights and now she focuses on Feminist Economics. She has been associated with different women's groups and has been appointed by the Planning Commission on various committees looking at different dimensions of Feminist Economics.

Harsh Singh Rawat

He is working as Office assistant at CBGA since April 2005.

Ranjeet Singh

Ranjeet joined CBGA in March, 2007. He possesses vast experience in the field of Finance and Accounts. Some of his works include, being part of the Finance supporting and Audit team in USAID supported projects including MOST India and Environmental Health Project (EHP) in addition to support in organizations such as ICRW, Winrock International, IFES and SEWA etc. Prior to joining CBGA, he was working at HelpAge India, New Delhi.

Presently he is working as Accounts and Admin Officer in CBGA as well as pursuing Masters in Human Rights.

Sumita Gupta

Sumita joined CBGA Team in March 2008. She has vast experience in the field of finance and accounts and possesses Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University. Presently she is working as Accounts and Administration Assistant at CBGA.

Bhumika Jhamb

Bhumika joined CBGA in February, 2007. She has a Bachelor’s in Home Science and Masters in Community Resource Management and Extension from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University. Participation in Study Exchange Programmes has helped her gain an international perspective of various issues, specifically on HIV/AIDS.

Presently, she is primarily involved in media advocacy and also working on various issues of public policy such as maternal health and gender budgeting at CBGA. She has keen interest in studying gender issues.

Deepak L Xavier

Deepak is a founding staff of CBGA. He has worked in various capacities in the Centre since its inception. He is a trainer and researcher. He has trained over 800 grassroots activists and NGO professionals on budget analysis and advocacy across India. He has written a number of articles and reports on governance and policy issues in various publications.

Deepak is currently looking after Centre’s capacity building initiatives. He has keen interest in public policy research and effective re-capacitation of civil society activists on governance and public policy.

Khwaja Mobeen Ur Rehman

Khwaja joined CBGA team in September 2004 as a Data Entry Operator. He has attained his education from Jamia Millia Islamia. He has extensive experience in primary data collection and compilation and tabulation.

He is presently working on Minority issues in addition to providing research support to the team.

Siba Shankar Mohanty

Siba Sankar Mohanty has been associated with CBGA in various capacities. He has led the Research Team at the centre from October 2004 till April 2006. His major areas of interest include social sectors and rural development. He has a Master’s degree in Analytical and Applied Economics from Utkal University and his M. Phil in South Asian Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Currently he is working with the Centre as an Advocacy Officer.

Gyana Ranjan Panda

Gyana joined the CBGA team in August, 2007. He has worked extensively on various domains of Indian Education namely: Peace Education, Entrepreneurial Education, Educational Stress in the secondary school children, etc. in addition to working at NCERT. After completing M.Phil from JNU, he is now pursuing Ph.D.

Currently, he is working on a research project at CBGA.

Indranil Mukhopadhyay

Indranil joined CBGA in February, 2007. He is also pursuing Doctoral Research in JNU and his area of research is “Public Expenditure in Health in Indian States”. He has worked with organizations like Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi where he worked on impact of liberalization on health sector and also Rajib Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, where he worked on SPS and TBT measures and implications for public health in India.

He is presently working with CBGA as a Research Associate on a project entitled “Safe Motherhood and Public Provisioning in India”. Apart from maternal health, his other areas of interest are public provisioning in health, liberalization and trade in health services, health inequalities etc.

Jawed A. Khan

Jawed joined CBGA in August, 2007. He has completed M.Phil in Economics and possesses vast experience in the field of research, especially in Uttar Pradesh. His area of specialization is Rural Development and Development Institutions.

Currently, he is working as a Research Associate at CBGA.

Kaushik Ganguly

Kaushik joined CBGA in January, 2008. He has completed M.Phil in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU. He possesses vast experience in issues of fiscal federalism and State Government finances. His areas of interest include decentralization, gender budgeting, budgeting for climate change and nature conservatism.

Nilachala Acharya

Nilachala joined CBGA as Research Officer in April, 2008. He has done M. Phil. in Economics from Berhampur University and his core expertise lies in analyzing State Budgets and advocacy with several stakeholders. His major areas of interest include financing for social sector, agriculture and budgeting for the Tribals and Dalits.

Pooja Parvati

Pooja has been part of the Research Team of CBGA since February 2006 and worked on issues related to Education. She is trained as a geographer (BA Hons. - Miranda House; MA - Delhi School of Economics), completed the M Phil programme (Planning and Development) from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2002 and has been working in the Development sector since.

Presently she is focusing on Analysis of Public Expenditure for Children at the District Level.

Ram Gati Singh

Ram Gati has been associated with CBGA since January, 2008 as Research Officer. He has done M Phil. In Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU and is currently pursuing Ph.D in Economics on Socioeconomic Inequality across Social Groups at CESP, SSS II, JNU. His areas of interest include issues of Macroeconomics, Public Finance and Budgetary Policy and Development Economics. At CBGA, he is presently working on the issues relating to Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, Tax Exemptions, Consequences of Liberalisation of Interest Rate Determination and the ‘Demonetisation’ of Fiscal Deficits.

Sakti Goldar

Prior to joining CBGA in September 2007, Sakti worked in CBGA from October 2005 to January 2007 mainly on the issues related to health, centre state fiscal transfers, marginalized groups like dalits and adivasis etc. He has done Bachelor’s in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and M. A. and M. Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research work in M. Phil. was broadly on some aspects of ‘Health Care Financing’.

Presently his major responsibility is to coordinate the research project on the state budget through the lens of children.

Trisha Agarwala

Trisha joined CBGA as Research Officer in February, 2008. She has extensively worked at the grassroots, involved actively in primary data generation and management and project development for monitoring and evaluation of rural development programmes. In the last 2 years she has been involved in the monitoring of numerous Centrally Sponsored schemes especially related to Water and Sanitation She possesses Masters in Sociology from JNU and also holds a Diploma in French. Currently, she is associated with research related to maternal mortality and audits.