Raghav Raghunathan

Raghav Raghunathan is a Senior Research Manager at Precision Development (PxD) in India, and a PhD candidate in the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University & Research. His dissertation looks at frictions in smallholder decisions across Sub-Saharan Africa and India. It covers planning horizons and hunger seasons, the adoption of drought-tolerant maize and index insurance in Tanzania, where he was co-PI on a CGIAR-CIMMYT project, and cash transfers in India. Before the PhD he worked at the World Bank on the poverty impacts of redistributive procurement at support prices. He was also Principal of the Farmers’ Segment at NCDEX, where he built digital FPO and warehouse-receipt infrastructure nationally, and was on the founding team of RamRahim Pragati Producer Company. He holds an MPP from UC Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright-Nehru scholar, and an MS in Agricultural Economics and Applied Econometrics from UC Davis, which he earned as part of the PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics there before transferring to Wageningen. He is an Acumen and a Young India Fellow and did his Bachelors in Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from NIT Surathkal.