Anu Rangarajan

Anu is a senior vice president and director of climate change at Mathematica. Across the organization’s 1,400 data and social scientists, she leads Mathematica’s development of innovative, sustainable solutions that help combat the effects of climate change and make vulnerable communities more resilient. Anu is an expert in experimental and QED evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and she taught program evaluation at the School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University for several years.

Previously, Anu led Mathematica’s International Research unit, playing key roles on agriculture and energy evaluations, maternal and child health initiatives, and water and sanitation projects. She has studied the effects of technical assistance efforts to help cities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions using the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gases, and supported an evidence review of results based payment approaches to support its application in the climate change domain. Rangarajan holds a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.