Gautam Bastian

Gautam Bastian is a Research and Program Development Manager at Precision Development, a global digital information non-profit. He has designed and implemented impact evaluations in agriculture, mobile finance, education, and business training in India, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria for the last 18 years. He has a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and previously worked at the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab, Harvard Business School, and the Center for Microfinance.

publications
Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Investing in Digital Agriculture Innovation to Secure Food, Yields, and Livelihoods

Improving local food security is critical to ending poverty and eliminating hunger, and United States Government can be a global leader. From Jonathan Lehe, Nick Milne, and Gautam Bastian, a proposal for USAID, Feed the Future, and its partners to launch a Digital Agriculture for Food Security Challenge to improve crop yields worldwide.

11.10.22 | 11 min read
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