Bhavya Khare is a joint degree student pursuing her MPP/MEM at the Jackson School and Yale School of the Environment. Before Yale, Bhavya worked at IDinsight, a global nonprofit specializing in data-driven insights for impactful development. In that role, she was a monitoring and evaluation partner for the Rockefeller Foundation, propelling distributed renewable energy adoption in India. She also worked with IWWAGE to support gender programming in India’s largest livelihood mission and consulted the Chief Minister’s office of the Government of Punjab in India to develop decision-relevant monitoring systems. Before IDinsight, Bhavya worked with the Centre for Advanced Studies of India at the University of Pennsylvania to understand the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on livelihoods in urban India. She is adept at large-scale data collection and translating complex data into clear actionable insights. Bhavya holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Ashoka University. 

At Yale, she is exploring environmental policy and finance, with a focus on energy and carbon markets. Through internships with the Albright Stonebridge Group and the World Resources Institute, she worked on U.S. energy legislation, corporate sustainability strategy and nature-based solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bhavya is particularly interested in how capital can be mobilized to accelerate an equitable energy transition while supporting local livelihoods and environmental integrity.