Ritwika Sen graduated as an Economics major from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (India) in 2012, where she was the President of the Economics Society. She received the Inlaks Scholarship 2012-13 to study an M.Sc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science starting in October the same year. Previously she has interned at the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (Kolkata) and is currently working as part of the projects team at the Avignam Group, New Delhi. Her primary academic interest centers around the study of institutions, both formal and informal, and their impact on the policy discourse.