Nidhi Parekh is the Director of the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI) - J-PAL Africa’s first research initiative. Prior to this role, Nidhi worked as the Managing Editor for VoxDev at the London School of Economics, as a Country Economist at the International Growth Centre (IGC) Kenya country office where she helped generate demand-led policy research with the national government, and as a Senior Budget Analyst (ODI Fellow) focusing on social development policies at the South African National Treasury. Nidhi has a master's in international and development economics from Yale University.