Srishti Rongpipi is a social science researcher with experience in impact evaluation and policy analysis. During her tenure as a Research Manager at Sambodhi Research, she led several large-scale quasi-experimental evaluation projects in climate-smart agriculture, rural livelihoods, and maternal and child health for the Ministry of Women and Child Development (Government of India), Gates Foundation, Rabobank, and IKEA Foundation, among others. She has extensive field experience across the rural landscapes of Central and Northern India.
Srishti currently serves as a Research Assistant for Accelerate Research Hub at the department, where she works on estimating child marriage trends and the role of education. Her research interests lie in families, couple dynamics, child wellbeing, and intimate partner violence. For her thesis, she is conducting a meta-analysis examining desistance in domestic abuse perpetrator programmes. She was a member of the 2025-26 Impact Lab cohort at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School.
Srishti holds a B.A.(Honours) in Psychology from the University of Delhi and a Master’s in Public Policy from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She hails from a small hilly town called Diphu in Assam and is the first person from the Karbi tribe to attend the University of Oxford.
