Nikita Singla is a Consultant with the World Bank's Trade, Transport and Regional Integration practices. She is an international trade, logistics, and inclusion specialist with thirteen years of experience in South Asia. She has experience of working across more than forty ports in the South Asia region.
She is a Non-Resident Scholar, South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. She has led the Ministry of Finance’s Time Release Study—an annual assessment of cargo clearance at fifteen ports in India for the last five years (2019-2024) and conducted a similar trade facilitation assessment for the land ports in Bangladesh and Bhutan.
She is co-editor of the World Bank's Good Neighbours series, and has authored the policy paper, titled “Women’s Inclusion in India’s Trade Ecosystem,” supported by the U.S. Embassy in India. She has extensively written on India-Pakistan trade, studying it from all angles: “Unilateral Decisions Bilateral Losses,” which focuses on the impact of the suspension of India-Pakistan trade in 2019, “Dubai Angled Triangle,” which focuses on informal trade between the two countries, and “Bridging the Divide,” which focuses on cross-Line of Control trade between the two sides of Kashmir region.
She sits on the panel of experts at the Centre for Trade Excellence, Singapore. She is 2024 Quad Infrastructure Fellow of the US Department of State, focusing on secure and sustainable infrastructure at ports. She is an engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Masters in International Economic Policy from Sciences Po Paris.