Mousumi K. Bhattacharjee is a micro-econometrician and her research interests are in poverty measurement, nutrition and health, gender, risk, and education.  She has been a consultant with the World Bank where she worked with the South Asia Regional Gender Innovation Lab. She has been a Visiting Fellow at IFPRI in Washington DC. She presently works as a Consultant for LEAD at KREA University and Co-cordinator for the Asia Pacific Regional Network, Human Development & Capability Association (HDCA).