Shikhar Vyas

- Owned end-to-end delivery of policy intelligence and legislative data products across 60+ jurisdictions, enabling scalable research, data, and news operations across state and federal domains
- Led integration of AI-driven capabilities into research and data workflows, driving step-change improvements in turnaround time, efficiency, and output quality
- Scaled data operations by expanding datase

-Architected and scaled AI-driven research and data workflows, significantly improving operational efficiency, turnaround time, and analytical depth across teams
-Drove expansion of data ecosystems by identifying and integrating new high-value sources, enhancing coverage, accuracy, and cost efficiency at scale
-Established and enforced quality, SLA, and governance frameworks, elevating reliability

- Compilation of information on policymaking, including legislation and regulations, attaining an expert level of knowledge of how governments function in the U.S.
- Communicate with vendors to resolve issues
- Manage, process and code data and documents, including bill data, amendments, schedules, transcripts, and other items as assigned by a manager
- Contribute to larger news gathering efforts

-Working with publishing houses (Oxford University Press, Adroit Publishers) to develop, copyedit, and proof: academic, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts, as well as scientific journal papers for international research organisations (BISA)
-Worked with IDP Education in the capacity of a Marker, examining IELTS transcripts

-Coordination activities of different projects, as well as working closely with and facilitating communication between civil society organisations, networks, academic institutions, media, vendors, and the private sector on responsible business issues
-Organising events like a 5-day long Learning Lab with civil society leaders from India and Europe on SDGs and the private sector
-Supervising and ma

-Working on Economist Group products to conduct extensive data-based research into federal & state-based legislative processes
-Managing, editing & coding legislative data, including bill data, amendments, schedules, transcripts and other data
-Dealing with client requests to ensure the timely and error-free delivery of data, news, transcripts and reports

- Undergoing training within the field of housing and land rights in India, with a special focus upon forced evictions.
- Conducting secondary research about Government programs, and documenting human rights violations.
- Analysing the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement Act, 2013 and documenting its utility

Worked as Founder at Gender & Sexuality Sensitisation Project.

- Conceptualising and creating the proposal for GSSP, which won the prestigious International Diversity Contest organised by United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and UNHATE Foundation
- Conducting extensive primary research with multi-level university stakeholders using Focus Group Discussions and In-Depth Interviews and archiving the narratives recorded
- Designing and organising workshops with

- Undergoing rigorous training regarding the role, constituency and functioning of NHRC and the human rights and the political condition within the country
- A field component, including visiting and observing a police station, a jail, and a shelter home and presenting written reports and oral presentations on the same, including mapping human rights violations at each site
- Producing, along wit

- Providing support in research and knowledge management, including the editing of the final Evaluation Reports of 2 UN Women Projects
- Drafting and editing Annual Work Plans (AWPs), Annual Narrative Report (2014) of UN Women India MCO, communication materials, and inter-unit literature
- Assisting the progress reporting in the online Results Management System (RMS) of the UN Women Head Quarters

Successfully submitted a dissertation titled “Militarisation of the Queer Rights Movement”

Top 2 rank; recipient of multiple merit scholarships; Successfully submitted a dissertation, “Law and Blood Donation: A Case Study of the Indian Blood Banking System”

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Qualitative and Quantitative Research skills;

Dissertation submitted, titled 'Law and Blood Donation: A Case Study of the Indian Blood Banking System';

Dissertation submitted, titled 'Militarisation of the Queer Rights Movement: A Case Study of United States of America Post the Repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy'

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