Swati is the Director of Research & Evaluation Centre at Breakthrough. She has more than two decades of experience in research, monitoring and evaluation in the development sector. An economist by training, she has vast experience of working on education, gender-based violence, adolescent empowerment, property rights of women, livelihood and HIV-AIDS related issues in India and South Asia. She has worked with various national and international organisations in different capacities. Swati has worked extensively with marginalised and vulnerable communities like denotified tribes, HIV-positive women, victims of human trafficking, prostituted women, children of red-light areas and women affected by domestic violence across India and South Asia. Swati has a number of publications to her credit.