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Reetika Khera is a Professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. She studied at the Delhi School of Economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) and Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (M.Phil.). She did her post-doctoral research at Princeton University. In 2016, she was Visiting Chair Professor ICCR-King's India Institute, at King's College London, and the 2017 International visitor at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University. In 2020, she was awarded the Malcolm Adiseshaiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies. Her research is focused on social policy in India, and she has published extensively in professional journals, magazines and newspapers on issues of food security, health and child nutrition, employment, education, etc. Her work on technology and welfare resulted in an edited collection titled "Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data meets Big Brother".