Mansi is Digital & AI Specialist with the World Bank’s South Asia team with over fifteen years of experience in policy research. Before joining the Bank, she was leading the Digital Economy, Start-ups and Innovation (DESI) team at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), a well-established think tank in New Delhi, India. Her work on the digital economy includes studying the impact of emerging technologies, data governance, digital public infrastructure (DPI), competition and regulation. She was a Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force on Our Common Digital Future: Affordable, Accessible and Inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure (2023), a Mid-Career Fellow of ISOC (2022) and a member of the Direct Tax Committee (2017) which redrafted India’s Direct Tax Law. She also has a background in management consulting and financial services with close to four years of experience in the private sector. She received her B.Sc. in Economics from St. Xavier’s, Kolkata and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Her PhD is from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.   

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