Moumita Das is an Economist with the Economics and Statistics Unit (ESU) in Delhi.

Prior to joining CEGIS, she completed her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focusing on development economics. She has held short-term positions with the World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, and a climate-tech start-up. Before moving abroad for her higher studies, she worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi.

Her research interests lie in spatial labour mobility and how it is affected by physical, infrastructural, and environmental factors. She is particularly interested in how climatic factors influence decision-making and the environmental impacts of economic policies. Her methodological approaches include structural modelling and quasi-experimental empirical methods. She is originally from Kolkata.