Avani Kapur is the Founder and Director of ResGov and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. A public finance expert with nearly two decades of experience, her work focuses on India’s welfare architecture, including budget tracking, fund flows, data and governance systems, state capacity constraints, and state–citizen engagement. Prior to founding ResGov, she led the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research.

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She has authored several articles, reports, and opinion pieces on state finances, governance, accountability, and welfare systems, and has conducted workshops and trainings with Indian Administrative Service officers, Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assemblies, Indian Economic Service officers, and officers of the National Audit and Accounts Academy. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-conceptualised the PULSE4Development platform to bring the development community together for shared learning and collaboration. She is a Tech4Good Fellow, a member of the WICCI Council of Ethics, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Development Policy and Practice.

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Education: Alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom; Smith College, Massachusetts, United States of America.