Madhuri Agarwal is a Senior Education Specialist on the evidence translation and synthesis team at the What Works Hub for Global Education.
Her research focuses on policies to improve access, quality, and inclusion in education. Her most recent work investigates the impact of primary school expansion on domestic violence in India. Previously, she was an Economist at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in the Centre for International Development, where she specialised in designing and analysing evaluation projects using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, including quasi-experimental designs. Additionally, she provided support for planning and implementing Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL) frameworks for international clients. She was also a guest teacher at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she taught econometric methods for policy analysis.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Economics from Delhi University, an MSc in Economics from TERI University, New Delhi, and a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, and Bielefeld University.
