Bipul Sahoo

Bipul Sahoo is a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where he works on the Paying Smallholder Farmers to Increase Carbon Sequestration by Changing Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Odisha project. As a member of the Research team, he contributes to survey and analysis work and leads the qualitative tooling strategy, including Odia transcription, data security, and coding setup for focus group discussions. He is also developing an understanding of the carbon credits market and potential financial incentives for smallholder farmers to adopt regenerative and climate-positive practices.

Prior to joining J-PAL, Bipul worked at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business on the Gates-funded ENACTS project. He co-authored Odisha Millets Mission: A Transition to a Just Food System and served as the nodal data lead for the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment and Odisha Millets Mission. He subsequently worked on the NITI Aayog Frontier Tech Hub Living Labs through Sattva, supporting work on public health data-entry burdens and a data-to-decision model with the Government of Odisha.

Bipul holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from KIIT.