Padmapriya was a senior research associate at CPR’s Accountability Initiative (AI). She managed AI’s research in the areas of Panchayat finance and decentralization. She also worked with the public finance team on budget analysis and fund flow tracking.
Prior to CPR, she has worked in the corporate sector with GE Research and in the nonprofit sector with Samata and Dr. Reddy Foundation.
She has an MPA(Public Finance, Gender & Food Policy), MBA(Finance), PGD in Environmental Law and PG in Classical Dance.