She is currently a Research Fellow in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. Her research interests include incentives and accountability in the public sector, education, social protection, and technology adoption. Her work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics and Economic Development and Cultural Change, among others, and has focused on incentives and accountability in China, Uganda, and Pakistan, as well as caste and learning outcomes in Pakistan, agricultural technology adoption and counterfeiting in Uganda, and nutrition and social protection in Bangladesh and Egypt.

Naureen Karachiwalla received her MSc and her DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.