Skip to content

Diksha Radhakrishnan (India)

Associate Director

Leads IDinsight's partnerships in India. Passionate about driving greater gender inclusivity in research and social programmes

Diksha Radhakrishnan is an Associate Director at IDinsight, focused on building and managing public health and gender portfolio projects, based in New Delhi, India.

Diksha brings 10+ years of experience across qualitative & experimental research, designing programmes for scale & in managing government partnerships.

Prior to ID Insight, Diksha worked as Deputy Director at the Centre for Social & Behaviour Change, Ashoka University where she served as Founding Lead for the first-ever Behavioural Insights Unit with the Central Government India, based at NITI Aayog. She also helped establish a Behavioural Design Lab at the Centre to bring together design-thinking with behavioural science for innovative solutioning. She also worked as Project Manager for the global innovation team at Evidence Action, Kenya supporting the scale-up of evidence-based interventions and as a Research & Training Manager at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, South Asia, managing large-scale public health evaluations across multiple states of India.

Diksha completed her MSc. in Development Studies from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London and her BA in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She is fluent in English, Hindi.