Archita Misra

Archita joined the Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2025.

Drawing on several years of experience as a data analyst and development policy researcher, she specializes in distilling clear insights from data across various institutional contexts. At the OECD, Archita co-authored reports related to aid flows and managed projects on statistical capacity building across developing countries. At the World Bank’s Development Research Group, she contributed to research on technology and public finance, and at Oxford’s Digital Pathways program, she synthesized evidence on digital skills development while collaborating with government stakeholders in Africa and Asia.

More recently, Archita worked as a Research Analyst for the Ethnographic Survey of Africa project, a collaborative effort of economists from Harvard Business School, MIT, and others. In this role, she conducted research on the impact of cultural norms on contemporary socioeconomic outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa using newly-digitized historical data.

Archita holds a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Stephen’s College at the University of Delhi. Her research interests include political economy, labor markets, and technological change, with a particular fascination for deploying new types of data sources!