Sharon Barnhardt is a Director at the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University, a J-PAL Faculty Affiliate, and a Research Fellow at IZA. An applied development economist and behavioral scientist, she has used randomized evaluations and natural experiments to study policy questions across India for more than fifteen years, with published work on anemia and micronutrient fortification, public housing and social networks, sanitation, health. and women's livelihoods. Much of her career has been spent building the institutional capacity for experimental research inside universities in India, first establishing the India presence of Nuffield College, Oxford's Centre for Experimental Social Sciences at FLAME University, and subsequently at CSBC. Her current studies test whether embedding life-skills training in Jharkhand's Samaveshi Aajeevika Yojana raises women's skills and earnings, and how to strengthen women's use of consumer grievance redressal systems. Sharon previously held positions at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, the World Bank and J.P. Morgan, and received her PhD from Harvard University, an MPA from Princeton University, and a BS from NYU.