Anaga Ramachandran is a community psychologist with more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of research and practice, strengthening how evidence is generated and used in complex social systems. Her work focuses on early childhood and education, with emphasis on implementation, quality improvement, scaling, and workforce issues in low-resource and humanitarian contexts.
Anaga has led and advised research, evaluation and learning initiatives across India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and the Middle East – partnering with governments, NGOs and philanthropic organisations. Her expertise spans impact evaluation, implementation research, measure development and psychometrics.
At CEI, Anaga brings a practitioner–researcher lens, combining methodological rigour with deep contextual sensitivity – to support strategy, evaluation and learning.
Anaga holds a PhD in Applied Psychology from New York University.