Nidhi Parekh, who was the first Managing Editor at VoxDev and also Managing Editor at the International Growth Centre (IGC), is Project Director, Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa, J-PAL. She has worked as a Country Economist for the IGC Kenya country programme and for the National Treasury in South Africa as an ODI fellow working on issues of social development. She holds an M.A. in International and Development Economics from Yale University.