Kishen Shastry

Kishen Shastry is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Cambridge, with a research focus on development and institutional economics. Kishen has an MPhil in Economic Research from the University of Cambridge, a Master's degree in International Economics from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University. He is a Rising Leader Fellow at the Aspen UK and an Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. His published research includes "Religion, Covid-19 and Mental Health," at the European Economic Review while his ongoing projects include "Political Economy of Informal Institutions in India."

Kishen is the Program Manager for GDN’s Digital Public Infrastructure program. You can reach him at kshastry@gdn.int.