Dr. Ananya Samajdar is Deputy Director for research at GRAAM. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. She has been leading the research team of GRAAM since 2020 and is also a very hands-on researcher. She has handled policy research and evaluation studies for WHO, NHSRC/MoHFW, NITI Aayog, Karnataka Evaluation Authority, and UNICEF. She has strong experience in leading and managing multi-state studies. Dr Ananya is experienced in handling research and evaluation studies in the domains of public health, education, skill development, and governance. She has strong skills in designing research, conceptualization and operationalization of study parameters, qualitative data analysis, and report writing. She comes with significant teaching and training experience in the public policy and M&E domains as well, having been a trainer for GRAAM’s academic offerings such as CSR MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning), 3PE (Public Policy and Program Evaluation) and IPP (Introduction to Public Policy).
In her previous job at TISS, she has collaborated with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (currently Ministry of Education) on higher education and academic leadership projects and with Coal India on influencing their CSR activities. Her other interests include singing and listening to Hindustani Classical Music (vocal).