Suraj has undergrad and Master’s degrees in development studies from IIT Madras. He has spent the last several years working as a research manager at IFMR, overseeing the implementation and analysis of several large-scale randomized control trials of digital financial services. At Berkeley, he hopes to examine the impact of digital technology and information access on the structures of society and economy, to ensure that digital technologies and services are designed and implemented effectively, in a manner that does not exacerbate existing inequality and exclusions.