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The Team

Small.
Very senior.

The people you hire are the people who do the work. That sounds obvious. In most firms, it isn't. We're four people. Every project gets a director on it from day one to the last slide.

Anish Panjiyar
Founder & Director
Evidence & DataField OperationsDigital Systems
40+ programmes managed
20+ states, field presence
CAPI & data architecture
National government evaluations

Anish has over a decade of experience designing and running large-scale field research programmes. His work spans CAPI systems, sampling design, data quality management, and end-to-end M&E across health, education, gender, agriculture, and governance sectors.

He has worked across 40+ programmes in 20+ states — including national-scale evaluations for the Ministry of Defence, skilling infrastructure grading for the Ministry of Skill Development, and programme monitoring for UN agencies and major foundations. He has run programmes at national scale, across 20+ states, and knows what the difference between a good data system and a useless one actually is.

Areas of expertise
Survey DesignCAPI SystemsM&E FrameworksSampling DesignData Quality ManagementField OperationsQuantitative AnalysisDigital Data Architecture
Maitreyee Purohit
Director — Strategy & Policy
StrategyMacroeconomicsUrban Policy
NITI Aayog-anchored project
Government of Gujarat advisory
WRI urban economics research
EY economic advisory

Maitreyee has spent her career working at the intersection of economics and public policy — across government advisory, macroeconomic research, and strategic analysis. Her range is unusual: from transfer pricing at EY to urban economics at WRI to growth strategy for NITI Aayog.

Her experience includes economic strategy work anchored by NITI Aayog for India's Vision 2047 growth hubs, third-party oversight of 18 state government scheme assessments in Gujarat, and spatial analysis of urbanisation patterns across 3,947 towns as a policy document for the Government of India. She has spent her career at the intersection of economics, strategy, and public policy.

Areas of expertise
Strategy FormulationMacroeconomic AnalysisUrban & Regional EconomicsPolicy AnalysisBehavioural EconomicsStakeholder EngagementGIS & Spatial Analysis
Yashree Mehta
Economist — PhD
Agricultural EconomicsEconometricsSpatial Analysis
PhD, Univ. of Göttingen (Germany)
Postdoc, Univ. of Göttingen
IWMI · ADB · IIM Ahmedabad
Published, Economic & Political Weekly

Yashree holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Göttingen and completed a postdoctoral research position there — a combination that is genuinely rare in an applied research context. Her academic training is in econometrics, production economics, and spatial analysis; her field experience runs from tribal villages in Gujarat to national agricultural systems.

She has conducted primary field research in tribal villages across Gujarat and Maharashtra, managed large datasets using STATA and ArcGIS, and co-authored papers published in Economic & Political Weekly on groundwater governance and agrarian systems. She has worked with IWMI, the Asian Development Bank, and IIM Ahmedabad, and published in Economic & Political Weekly.

Areas of expertise
Agricultural EconomicsEconometric ModellingSpatial Analysis (ArcGIS)STATA · RMixed Methods ResearchField ResearchAcademic Publishing
Diya Negi
Researcher & Data Technician
Data ManagementField ResearchM&E

Diya works across data collection, management, and field research operations. Studies run well or poorly in the details — she is why they run well.

Areas of work
Data CollectionData ManagementField OperationsM&E Support

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