Shenila Rawal

Dr Shenila Rawal is an applied economist specialising in education, labour markets, public-private partnerships and issues of gender and poverty. She has extensive experience in leading and conducting large-scale evaluations and research projects for a range of organisations, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office and the World Bank, working to ensure robust, evidence-based policy and practice.

She has authored several papers and lectures at Masters’ and PhD level on a range of topics in the field of Economics of Education. She is currently Managing Partner at the Oxford Partnership for Education Research and Analysis, an education policy and practice thinktank. She was previously Director at Lehman Brothers and Vice President at Merrill Lynch. She holds several governance positions at a range of organisations that support beneficiaries in the UK and internationally.