Shubha Jayaram is a Senior Program Officer at the Results for Development Institute (R4D), where she leads the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE) project, Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement (ISESE) initiative, and the Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communication project. Prior to R4D, Shubha worked in both the private and non-profit sectors. She worked as an analyst at IDEAglobal, a macroeconomic research firm, where she supported the fixed income and commodity teams and developed short and medium term outlooks for clients. Shubha has also worked with TechnoServe in sub-Saharan Africa, where she provided business advice and mentorship to entrepreneurs and SMEs in South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda. Shubha holds a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University.