Vidya Diwakar is a mixed-methods researcher focused on understanding gender-disaggregated drivers of poverty escapes, and the role of armed conflict and fragility in creating poverty traps. She has authored and reviewed a range of reports, book chapters and journal articles, including as Guest Editor of a Special Issue in World Development.
Vidya has fundraised for and led a range of large multi-partner, multi-year policy-oriented research projects on poverty dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia for international organisations and bi-lateral aid agencies.
