Pushkar Lakhe
Junior Economist | Open Transaction Networks
Pushkar Lakhe is a Junior Economist with GDN’s programme on Open Transaction Networks, working at the intersection of applied economics and digital public infrastructure. He brings experience in field research and primary data across international development programmes. His work involves designing rigorous empirical evaluation frameworks to assess how open, interoperable networks drive market access and socioeconomic inclusion.
He holds an MSc in Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and previously worked as a Research Consultant at the Center for Policy Research and Governance (CPRG). Pushkar also writes about economics, abstraction, and cognition on Substack.
