DAPRF Data Analytics for Policy Research Fellowship- Cohort 3.0 | A Four-Month Immersive Online Hands-On Certificate Training Fellowship Program| August-December 2025 | IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning
Fellows List & Details
| Data Analytics for Policy Research Fellowship – Cohort 3.0 | ||||
| A Four-Month Online Immersive Introductory Leadership Certificate Training Fellowship Program | ||||
| August (23, 30) September (6, 13, 20, 27) October (4, 11, 18, 25) November (1, 8, 15, 29) & Dec (6), 2025 | ||||
| Twelve Consecutive Saturday Mornings | ||||
| 11 am – 1 pm | Zoom & Hands-On Data Analytics Learning & Project Experience Certification | ||||
| IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning | ||||
| Name | Designation | Organisation | Occupation | Location |
| Aabid nisar shah | Student | IGNOU | Student | India |
| Abhishek H P | Current affairs Mentor | Copper Age Group of Institutions | Teaching Faculty | Davangere |
| Akheel Adam | Student | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Student | Guruvayur |
| Anand Vijay Sankar Guntuku | Currently Unemployed | Currently Unemployed | Visakhapatnam | India |
| Bijoyetri Samaddar | PhD Student | University of Wisconsin-Madison | PhD Student | Madison |
| Deepankshi Agnihotry | Visiting researcher and assistant editor | IMPRI | Researcher | India |
| Uvais Nalakath Arakkal | Consultant Psychiatrist | Iqraa International Hospital and Research Centre | Working professional | India |
| Enosha Fatima Arshad | Student | Maharashtra Institute of Technology -World Peace University | Student | Bhopal |
| Heena Sinha | Research Associate | CEHAT- Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes | Researcher | India |
| Juhi Jain | MPH Student | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Student | Alwar, Rajasthan |
| Khyati Singh | Policy Researcher | Vaaghdhara | Working professional | Jaipur |
| Komal Kejriwal | Incoming Phd Scholar | Stratmore | Working professional | Kolkata |
| Kuhu Singh | Research Assistant | Pahle India Foundation | Researcher | New Delhi |
| Mahera Imam | Research Scholar | Department of Women’s Studies, Bharthidasan University | Student | Tiruchirappalli-Tamil Nadu |
| Maria Khanam | PhD Scholar | Jamia Millia Islamia | Student | New Delhi, India |
| Prachi Agarwal | PhD Scholar | Jamia Millia Islamia | Researcher | New Delhi |
| Prakash Kumar | Senior manager | The Nudge Institute | Working professional | India |
| Rachit Goel | PhD Candidate (Korean Studies) | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Student | New Delhi |
| Ramakrishna gudi | Working with multiple edtech firms | copper age an india4ias | Teaching Faculty | Bengaluru |
| Sakshi Sharma | Analyst – Consultant | Capacity Building Commission | Working professional | New Delhi |
| Shania | Lead- Policy Research | VAAGDHARA | Working professional | JAIPUR |
| Shivani Mehrotra | Freelancer | Freelance | Researcher | India |
| Shruti Chakraborty | Programme Associate | Transform Rural India | Working professional | Delhi |
| Sudakshina Ghosh | Practice Leader | SAP SE | Working professional | India |
| Tarunima Panwar | Senior Research Associate | Sambhav Foundation | Working professional | Bengaluru |
| Venugopal K | Student , Policy Associate- Office of MP Bengaluru South | IGNOU / Office of MP Bengaluru South | Policy Associate | Bangalore |
#IMPRI Generation Alpha Data Center (GenAlphaDC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, invites you to #WebPolicyLearning
An Online National Autumn & Winter School Program
A Four-Month Immersive Online Hands-On Certificate Training Fellowship Program
DAPRF Data Analytics for Policy Research Fellowship– Cohort 3.0
Details of the #WebPolicyLearning:
Dates: Aug (23, 30) Sept (6, 13, 20, 27) Oct (4, 11, 18, 25) Nov (1, 8, 15, 29) Dec (6), 2025
Classes on consecutive Saturday mornings
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom & Data Analytics Learning & Project Experience Certification
Key Highlights: Hands-on Data Analytics Learning with Practice Datasets (excel, eviews, stata, R); Statistics & Econometrics in Practice; Monitoring & Evaluation; AI Data Tools; Spatial Data Analysis- GIS; Thematic Curated Interactive Expert Sessions; Fellows Project Submission (to be published as an ISBN edited book).
Event Details: https://www.impriindia.com/event/daprf-data-analytics-for-policy-research-fellowship-cohort-3-0/
Program Experts

Chair: Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Co-Chair: Mr Rakesh Pandey, Doctoral candidate in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream, RAND School of Public Policy and Assistant policy researcher, RAND Corporation (TBC)
Experts
Prof Nilanjan Banik, Professor and Program Director (BA, Economics and Finance), Mahindra University, Hyderabad; Visiting Consultant, IMPRI
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Prof Vibhuti Patel, Visiting Distinguished Professor, IMPRI
Dr Amar Jesani, Independent Researcher and Teacher (Bioethics and Public Health); Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
Dr Devender Singh, Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI; Global Studies Programme Fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany (TBC)
Dr Radha Ashrit, Deputy Director General (DDG), Development Monitoring & Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog.
Dr Pratap Mohanty, Associate Professor, Economics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee (TBC)
Dr Ismail Haque, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Visiting Fellow (Honorary), IMPRI
Dr Prabhu Ponnusamy, Founder/CEO at Iotalytics Research and Analytics Solutions Pvt Ltd
Mr Rakesh Pandey, Doctoral candidate in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream, RAND School of Public Policy and Assistant policy researcher, RAND Corporation
Late Dr Radhika Pandey, Associate Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI
Convenors:
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI
Coordinators:
Swetha Shanker Pydimarry, Visiting Researcher & Assistant Editor
Reet Lath, Visiting Researcher & Assistant Editor
Previously by IMPRI in Data Analytics –
DAPRF Data Analytics for Policy Research Fellowship
Cohort 2 | February-May 2025
Cohort 1 | September-December 2024
Data Analytics for Policy Research
Cohort 3 | April 2024
Cohort 2 | November 2023
Cohort 1 | October-November 2022
Data, Monitoring and Evaluation
Cohort 2 | July 2024
Cohort 1 | June-July 2023
Upcoming and Previous IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning Events: See here


















