Pallavi Nuka executes policy and strategy at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Her responsibilities include financial, academic, and operational management. Prior to joining the center, she was the Associate Director of the Innovations for Successful Societies research program, which explores issues of governance and policy implementation in challenging contexts and she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School and a Research Coordinator in the Department of Politics at Princeton. She has a background in impact evaluation and has conducted research on governance, environment, and development. She worked with the World Bank-Global Environment Facility's Evaluation Office for six years, assessing the design, performance, and impact of the Bank’s investments, with a focus on climate change adaptation, conservation of biodiversity, and land degradation. From 1999-2001, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangolo, Cote d'Ivoire. She has a B.S. from MIT and an M.P.A. from Princeton University.