Avani Kapur is Founder and Director of ResGov and also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. She is a public finance expert with nearly 2 decades of experience in studying India’s welfare architecture including budget tracking, fund flows, data and governance systems and state capacity constraints as well as state-citizen engagements. Prior to this she was leading the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research. She is a Tech4Good Fellow, member of the WICCI Council of Ethics and on the editorial board of the Journal of Development Policy and Practice.