Dr. Suhani Jalota is an applied microeconomist and entrepreneur focused on labor markets, health access, and AI adoption in emerging economies. She is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where her field experiments examine barriers to workforce participation and health system access, and test AI-enabled interventions to raise productivity at scale. She founded and leads Stanford’s Future of Work for Women Initiative, a cross-sector initiative with the Hoover Institution to build evidence and partnerships to accelerate workforce entry and firm productivity, with a long-run goal of moving tens of millions into paid work and the digital economy by 2040. Jalota founded the Myna Mahila Foundation, a research-driven social enterprise (founded 2015) that now reaches 1.5 million women with a team of 70 in India; Myna Research, which runs field experiments in urban slums; and Rani Work, a platform enabling smartphone-based digital employment. She is a Forbes Asia Under 30 recipient, Top 33 She Shapes AI Awardee, Asia 21 Leader, Young Achiever’s Mother Teresa Memorial Awardee, Queen’s Young Leader, and named to the top 50 under 50 most powerful women by India Today. She holds a BS from Duke and a PhD and MBA from Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
