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Sandra is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University. She is a fellow of the School of International and Public Affairs’ Sustainable Development program. Her main research interests lie in the fields of Development Economics, Public Health and Demographics.

Her projects include the analysis of access and satisfaction with cooking arrangements in rural India as well as the study of conflicts’ consequences on demographics. Sandra holds a MPhil. Economics Research from the University of Cambridge (UK) where she received the Cambridge Trust Scholarship. She also graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris (France) with a MSc. Engineering. As an ISEP fellow, her research will examine the role of urban/rural migration on resource use and forest degradation in Central India.