Supriya Sadagopan is an international development professional with experience in public health research around social and behavioral change and the management of natural resources.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Sadagopan is a program manager at the Governance Action Hub, an initiative to facilitate and strengthen coalitions for governance reform and action. In this role, she provides technical and operational support, managing partnerships and stakeholder engagement, as well as supporting implementation of workstreams on local development processes, state capture, and climate action/energy transition. Prior to this, she led the research engagement of Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption, a program to promote transparency, accountability and participation in natural resource governance across Nigeria, Peru, Colombia, Mongolia, and Zimbabwe.
Prior to this, Ms. Sadagopan supported a behavioral evaluation of menstruation as a barrier to girls’ education in Nepal. She also worked in Thailand, first as a high school science and English teacher through a Princeton in Asia fellowship and then as a researcher focusing on Burmese armed ethnic conflicts through media and advocacy outreach.
Ms. Sadagopan holds an MPH in health behavior from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as well as a BS in biochemistry and BA in human biology from North Carolina State University. She is a native speaker of English and Tamil, and speaks conversational Spanish and French.
