Dr Protiva Kundu is Visiting Senior Fellow at IMPRI. Protiva Kundu is a development professional with more than a decade of experience in public policy analysis. She currently works as the Research Lead and Thematic Lead – Social Sectors at the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), a think tank based in New Delhi. Her research interests include social sector policy, public finance and gender. At CBGA, Protiva works on financing of education, public financing for women and children, gender-responsive budgeting in education, early childhood education, education equity, and child protection. She has a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.