Director of Research

Tirtha is the Director of Research at 17 Asset Management, where she oversees the research strategy that supports the firm's investment and consulting activities. Before joining 17 AM, she was a McNamara Fellow with the Finance and Private Sector Development Unit at the World Bank. She has also worked with OECD's Results and Evaluation team to improve the programming of development finance in bilateral agencies and with the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) North America Team to conduct broad market research on using sustainability data by investors and asset managers. Before OECD, she led the evaluation and empirics team at the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC), founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and Ashoka University, where she helped kickstart India's first official Behavioural Insights Unit within NITI Aayog (India's planning commission).  This unit worked as an in-house consulting outfit that used Behavioral Economics to advise different ministries in the Indian Government on optimizing policies and programs in health, nutrition, financial inclusion, privacy and climate change.

Tirtha holds a MPA in International Finance and Economics as well as Quantitative Analysis from Columbia University, and a BS with double majors in Applied Mathematics and Environmental Studies from FLAME University in India.