Krittika Ray is a DPhil Economics student at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. Her interests lie broadly in development, environment, and labour economics, with a particular focus on natural disaster adaptation, migration and urbanisation, and the political economy of effective policymaking. She completed the MSc in Economics for Development at the University of Oxford in 2022, graduating with prizes for best performance, dissertation, and essays in development economics. She received her BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.