Varun Agarwal is a Program Associate in the Strategic Public Finance team at CEGIS. He completed his B.A. (Hons.) PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from Ashoka University with a specialisation in Economics. Previously, he interned at CivicDataLab as a part of the Public Finance Team working with the Government of Assam on improving procurement analytics and budgeting practices. He has also worked as a Research Associate at Trivedi Centre for Political Data at Ashoka University assisting with research on elections in India.