Education
MA Environmental Economics
MADRAS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Chennai, India
July 2018 - July 2020
I took courses on economics of global climate change, sustainable development, environmental valuation, resource and environmental economics, environment and health, development economics, applied econometrics and statistics. My dissertation, supervised by Dr. Kavi Kumar, was on 'Crop Diversity and Resilience to Droughts: Evidence from Indian Agriculture'. More info about the dissertation: here.
BA Corporate Economics
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
Chennai, India
June 2014 - April 2017
Courses included modules on economics, statistics, accounting, econometrics and mathematics. I was awarded "The Department of Corporate Economics Prize" for the 2017 batch for securing the highest grades.
Introductory Course on Public Policy- iPolicy for Young Leaders
CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
Chennai, India
January 2018
The three day course were an introduction to institutional mechanisms, public choice, property rights, policy evaluations and regulatory actions.
More about the course here.
Certificate on Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
London, United Kingdom
July 2016 - August 2016
The course provided insights into the application of microeconomic analysis in the field of the natural environment and sustainable development. I was introduced to the many debates in the sphere of environmental economics through modules on externalities, economics of natural resources, pollution control, climate change, global environmental politics, and environmental valuation. Supervision studies and peer-reviewed helped me gather many perspectives on the issues studied.
More about the course here.