Shobhini Mukerji is the Executive Director of J-PAL South Asia. She has experience in managing large scale assessments, training and capacity building, data management and analysis. She has previously been employed with Pratham, a large scale education initiative in India, and worked on research projects with the Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF-UK), UNDP and UNICEF. At J-PAL South Asia, she oversees all the research, policy and training activities and has experience in the education and health sector in particular. Shobhini is a principal investigator on a randomized evaluation of an education project which looks at interventions to improve learning levels of children in government schools. She holds a Masters degree in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics with a focus on Social Policy and Statistics.