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Shagun Sabarwal is Director of Policy, Training, and Communications at J-PAL South Asia and Director of CLEAR South Asia. She leads J-PAL South Asia’s engagements with governments, donors, and civil society organisations to initiate new research, disseminate policy lessons, and scale-up evidence-based programmes. She provides direct advisory to J-PAL South Asia’s health, agriculture, climate action, and gender sectors. Shagun provides technical and strategic direction to J-PAL South Asia’s partnerships with state and central governments, including the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) at NITI Aayog, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), and the state governments of Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab. She is currently leading J-PAL South Asia’s role as a knowledge partner to the Government of Bihar for the scale-up of the ‘graduation approach’, and is a principal investigator for a process evaluation and a randomised evaluation on the adaptation of the graduation approach by governments. Previously, Shagun was an Evaluation Specialist with 3ie and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Population Council. She completed her Ph.D. in Public Health at Harvard University.