Professor (Dr.) Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India. Dr Sabharwal holds the position of Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick. She has previously been the In-Charge of the CPRHE/NIEPA and has also served as the Director at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. Nidhi has studied inter-group inequalities across human development indicators, focusing on the role of caste- and gender-based discrimination in the market and non-market institutions, dimensions of the nature of access to social protection policies in health, and affirmation action measures in education. She has also studied excluded groups in other countries, such as the Burakumin in Japan. She has published widely on issues pertaining to her research area. Dr. Sabharwal is the co-author of the Lancet Series on Racism, Xenophobia, Discrimination and Health (The Lancet, 2022). She is the co-author of Caste, Discrimination, And Exclusion in Modern India (Sage, 2015), co-editor of Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment (Sage, 2014), co-editor of India Higher Education Report 2016: Equity in Higher Education (Sage, 2018), and India Higher Education Report 2022: Women in Higher Education (Routledge, 2023). Nidhi’s current research area lies in the area of access and equity in higher education, with a focus on issues of college readiness, diversity, social inclusion and higher educational success of socially and economically disadvantaged students.