Dr. Gitanjali Sen is a Professor, at the Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India. She specializes in Development Economics and is working in Applied Microeconomics areas that are relevant to public policy. Her research interest is in areas of inclusive development, particularly access to education, health, employment, finance, and their role in the study of poverty and inequality. Some of her current works include the study of early life health and its connection to later life outcomes, school education and higher education, access to health and labor market outcomes. Earlier, she has also worked in areas of child labor and returns to education. She has published in internationally acclaimed journals like World Development, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Feminist Economics, PLOS One, Population Research and Policy Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Environment and Development Economics, and the Economic and Political Weekly.