Sonakshi Sharma manages a behavioral health project about male involvement in family planning in Zambia. Sonakshi joined IPA in May 2014, immediately after completing her MA in International and Development Economics from Yale University. While at Yale, she was a research assistant for Professor Cheryl Doss and assisted with her gender asset gaps research in India and Ghana. Sonakshi has a BA in economics and statistics from St. Xavier's college in Mumbai, India.