Smita Das is a Program Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action and a Consultant at the World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab. She has over ten years of experience running impact evaluations related to women’s economic empowerment. She is particularly interested in implementation-focused research. Since 2019, she has been deeply involved in examining the relationship between soft skills and economic outcomes, measuring soft skills, and designing training programs. Before that, she was a research fellow at Evidence for Policy Action at the Harvard Kennedy School, and ran programs addressing the foreclosure crisis in Boston and the wages of domestic workers in India. She earned a Masters in Economics from Boston College and a Bachelors in Mathematical Economic and Public Policy from Rice University.