Sana Satpathy manages the social protection sector at J-PAL South Asia, wherein she engages with governments, civil society organisations, and the private sector to forge new research partnerships, disseminate insights from global evidence, and catalyse evidence use within the sector. She also leads J-PAL’s partnership with the Government of Odisha to institutionalise evidence-informed policymaking in the state. Sana holds a master’s in public policy from UC Berkeley and a master’s in development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.