Priyamvada is a Senior Research Associate at TIES. She has been involved in multiple projects to conduct randomized controlled trials, adapt and validate child development measures, develop tools for measuring the quality of play-based learning, and in training and research capacity-building initiatives. Before TIES, Priya was at UNICEF in New York, supporting education policies across LMICS. She has focused on improving early and foundational learning quality sustainably and at scale as a practitioner and researcher since 2011. She completed her MS in International Education Development from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019.