Veda Ramakrishnan is a doctoral researcher at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Tilburg University, and part of the HEPARD Doctoral Network, funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Her research interests are applied econometrics, health economics, and environmental economics.

Born and raised in Kerala, India, she earned a B.A. in Economics from St. Teresa’s College, Kochi, and an M.A. in Econometrics from the University of Madras, where her dissertation examined the factors behind child malnutrition in India.

Before starting her PhD, she was a Research Associate at the Centre for Management of Health Services at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, working with Prof. Tarun Jain on public health insurance and healthcare markets. She also co-authored IIMA case studies on the Gujarat health system in crisis and on health insurance in India. Earlier, she led projects on environmental behaviour in Kerala with the Haritha Keralam Mission and YouKan Heal Kochi, working with local government and partners such as GIZ and the Max Planck Institute.