She is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India; and a Non-resident Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Prior to this, Ms. Dewan was a Senior Fellow and Director for International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC.
Ms. Dewan has over 20 years of experience working on labour markets, strategies for employment generation, school-to-work transition, digital transformation, workforce development, and social protection. She serves on various committees, including as a Senior Advisor to the Swedish Prime Minister’s Global Deal initiative; on the Advisory Committee for Niti Aayog’s Vision Document 2035; and as a Commissioner on the Global Challenge Foundation’s Climate Governance Commission. Her career has spanned continents, taking her from the private sector and the World Bank in the United States, the International Labour Organization in Switzerland, and the European Commission in Belgium, to grassroots organizations in India. She appears in international media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, US News and World Report, CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, TimesNow and IndiaAhead.