Shreya Bhattacharya

Shreya Bhattacharya is Research Director (Assistant Professor) at the Center for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL). Previously, she was a Senior Research Analyst at the Digital Inclusion and Governance Lab (DIGLab) at William and Mary's Global Research Institute. She has led impact evaluations focused on women's digital and financial inclusion and interoperable payment systems in Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, and Nepal. She has also worked as an Economist at Amazon, specializing in urban labor markets, labor allocation, and behavioral economics. Shreya holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Houston. Her research interests are in Development Economics, Urban Economics, Political Economy, Digital Economics and Behavioral Economics. She was a visiting PhD Fellow at the United Nations World Development Research Institute (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland.