Annapurna is an engineer turned economist who works in the area of behavioural macroeconomics. Her PhD thesis integrates heterogeneous agent models and their New Keynesian extensions (HANK) with the theory of self-control. Major part of her thesis deals with monetary policy, viz., implications of incomplete markets and costly self-control for forward guidance, and inflationary effects of green transition. She presented her paper on forward guidance in the 13th edition of the World Congress of the Econometric Society. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has over seven years of experience in the IT industry as a software engineer. She is interested in analysing individual consumption/ saving behaviour and their macroeconomic implications. Some of her other interests are itihasas, current affairs, cooking.