New School for Social Research, Economics, MA, 2025
Nitesh hails from India, close to the border of Nepal in the north. He has been a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University (2019) and holds an MA in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (2018). He completed his BSc in Economics from the Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune (2015). He works as a Research Assistant at The New School on the Decolonization of Global Health. He has been a Field-Research Consultant with the Inclusion Economics India Centre on a Randomized Controlled Trial project on Gender and Technology and has been a Teaching Assistant for a course on Ecological Economics at Ashoka University. Nitesh is pursuing an MA in Economics at The New School for Social Research. His research interests include price theory, political economy and ecological economics.
As the Climate and Health Toolkit Fellow, Nitesh will support the IRC’s Health Technical Unit by helping revise, finalize and disseminate a toolkit for designing climate-resilient health programs in humanitarian settings. The IRC’s Health Technical Unit is comprised of professionals from the fields of Primary Health Care, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Mental and Environmental Health, providing IRC’s country offices and emergency response teams with world class technical expertise, capacity building and a cross-country view of what works to achieve outcomes in terms of both evidence and practical experience. To support this team, Nitesh’s fellowship will include: developing briefs on different topics related to climate and health, writing case studies of program examples, revising program design tools to be more user friendly for country programs, and disseminating materials via webinars and learning sessions.