Parnika Jhunjhunwala

Parnika Jhunjhunwala is a Policy Manager at J-PAL South Asia, based in New Delhi, where she works on building the Gender sector’s policy engagement, partnering with governments, civil society organisations, and researchers to generate rigorous evidence and translate it into policy and practice. She is currently building the workstream on reducing gender-based violence through the J-PAL and Aparajita collaboration, supporting five NGOs across India. She also supports Telangana’s SERP in identifying and supporting high-potential women entrepreneurs and is building the workstream on the care economy and female labour force participation.

Prior to joining J-PAL, Parnika worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India, where she co-led programmes on social entrepreneurship focused on youth and women entrepreneurs. She also worked with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), supporting the Innovation for Development Facility on the adoption and scaling of innovations and portfolio approaches to innovation.

Parnika holds a Master’s in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of Geneva and a BA (Hons) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women.