Nesha Ramful is a social scientist specializing in quantitative and qualitative studies in the fields of child wellbeing, poverty analysis and social protection. She has been working as a researcher with the Social Policy Research Institute since July 2014 where she is and has been conducting several UNICEF-led researches in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She also lectured courses in social protection financing at the University of Mauritius and is involved in building the local capacity in many developing countries including Training-of-Trainers courses in the field of social policy, poverty analyses and social protection.

She holds a Masters degree in Social Protection Financing from the University of Mauritius and is currently doing her PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on Gender and Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is fluent in English, French and Hindi and is well versed with statistical software such as STATA and SPSS.

Over the last 5 years, she has been working in the following countries on social protection and poverty related projects: Indonesia, Lao PDRs, Thailand, Bangladesh,, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, State of Palestine, Swaziland, Togo, and Zimbabwe.