Sripriya Iyengar Srivatsa

Dr Sripriya Iyengar Srivatsa is a Policy Economist at the Cities that Work Initiative of the International Growth Centre (IGC). She was previously a Research Associate at ICTD working on the Gender and Tax project with a focus on tax compliance. Prior to this, she was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Ministry of Finance in Sierra Leone where her work has covered data-for-development, research capacity building initiatives, and studying the labour market implications of household care-burden in Sierra Leone. She is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge where her doctoral research agenda is closely tied to ICTD’s interests in the political economy of taxation and sub-national revenues. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Political Economy from SOAS, University of London, and previously worked as a legislative researcher in the Indian Parliament.