Dr. Sakshi Pandey is a researcher specializing in Food and Nutrition policy. She holds a PhD in Agroinformatics from The University of Tokyo and an MTech from IIT Bombay, and has over five years of interdisciplinary research and policy experience across India, Japan, and international institutions. Her doctoral and postdoctoral work examined the linkages between socioeconomic inequalities, climate variability, and food and nutrition outcomes in South Asia, drawing on large nationally representative datasets and advanced econometric methods.
Prior to joining Pahle India Foundation, Dr. Pandey was working with capacity Building Commission, GoI as Senior Research Associate. She has also served as Research Associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo and as a Research Fellow under the UNICEF-IIT Bombay Fellowship.
She is a recipient of the prestigious MEXT Scholarship from the Government of Japan. Her research contributions include three peer-reviewed academic papers on child malnutrition. She has also served as co-editor of two books on Food Security and Public Health published through ADBI, contributing chapters on dietary intake and climate change. She has also co- authored two policy briefs on women’s livelihood and sustainable infrastructure and several blogposts on Asia Pathways.
She can be reached at [sakshi.pandey@pahleindia.org].