Deanna Ford is an Affiliate Researcher at Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR. She is a Managing Director at Inclusion Economics and Senior Adviser at EGC. Her expertise includes Organizational strategy and development of university-based research centers focused on utilizing the insights of economics for policy impact, Approaches and measurement frameworks for leveraging data and research for policy decision-making and  Management and operational systems for high quality research center and program implementation.

Prior to this she was the Executive Director of EPoD at Harvard Kennedy School, where she leads partnership development, strategic planning and oversight of programme operations. Deanna completed her Master of Public Policy at Georgetown University in 2007 and her BA in economics at Princeton University in 2003.