Murali Mallikarjunan

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Lead - State Partnerships (South India), J-PAL South Asia

Murali Mallikarjunan leads the partnership with the State Government of Tamil Nadu(GoTN) to institutionalize an evidence informed approach to policymaking. As a part of his role, he manages the research, scale-up and policy outreach engagements with the state. Further, he works on the Early Childhood Education project and supports the Elderly Panel Survey within Tamil Nadu.

Before joining J-PAL, he was the Director-Curriculum at Bhumi, a non-profit volunteer organization and a Teach For India Fellow prior to that. His interests lie in Education. Murali holds a Masters in Education, International Education Policy, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.