Vikas Dimble is an Associate Director at IDinsight, based in New Delhi, India. In his role, Vikas works on and manages a portfolio of projects arounds building a robust data ecosystem in India. Prior to joining IDinsight, Vikas was Deputy Director for Ashoka Centre for Economic Policy (ACEP) at Ashoka University. ACEP worked on empirical macro-development questions relevant to developing countries. Vikas worked with Arvind Subramanian, the Director, to conceptualize, set up and run ACEP. Prior to that, Vikas was Assistant Director of Research and Strategy for the Tata Centre for Development (TCD) at the University of Chicago. He has also worked as India Country Economist for the IGC, as a consultant to the World Bank, and as a Research Associate at J-PAL research centre at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Vikas completed his Masters from the University of Sussex and his undergraduate degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University, Melbourne. In addition to IDinsight, Vikas is also the content editor for India for India , a public policy portal.