Himansu Kumar Nayak

Himansu Kumar Nayak

Project Associate, J-PAL South Asia

Himansu is currently working as a Project Associate on the PAD project which is being conducted in association with the Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) team, J-PAL and the Government of Odisha. Himansu has also worked on a project named Senior Secondary Readiness Program (SSRP) in 2 districts of Odisha as a project Associate in the year 2019-20. 

Previously he has worked in GFK India as a Senior Executive where he worked in multiple projects led the Government of Odisha, Central Gov, the Population council, NACO, UNICEF, NDMA, and IPE global and so on. 

Himansu has broad experience in conducting quality control with adequate checks & feedback, monitoring, supervision of the collection of data in different settings, planning project fieldwork flow, staffing recruitment, team handling, motivating teams, effective training to the interviewers & team leads, and material preparation. 

He enjoys the process of qualitative data collection and is delighted when the project is completed within the scheduled timelines.