Puja Vasudeva Dutta is an economist with expertise in social protection. She worked as a senior economist in the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice in South Asia and East Asia for more than a decade. Before joining the World Bank, she was a researcher in the Poverty Research Unit (Sussex, UK) and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (India), focusing on poverty, inequality, and labor markets. Her recent work spans research, technical assistance, and operational support on social protection policy reform, program design, and delivery systems. Puja holds a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Sussex, England.