Rishabh is passionate about bringing change towards eliminating poverty and marginalization. He specializes in building evidences and innovations to guide development and also implementing large scale interventions. He has strong experience of building rigorous evidences through fit for purpose methodologies and strategic planning. He has led teams in large scale research studies and impact evaluations involving policy level implications both nationally and internationally across sectors. He has deep interest in domains of innovation, agricultural value chains, sustainable livelihood systems, technology for development and financial inclusion. Rishabh has over around seven years of experience of working with for-impact organizations including governments, non-government organizations, funding organizations,multi-laterals and bi-laterals. In his previous role as research lead Rishabh has executed over 80 assignments in research studies, impact assessments and impact evaluations of social development projects.In his current role he is working with Ministry of Rural Development towards supporting livelihoods of vulnerable under the NRLM program across the country.