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Yashodhara Rana serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Eleanor Crook Foundation. In this role, Yasho oversees ECF’s multi-million-dollar portfolio of grants in maternal and child nutrition and provides thought leadership both to the ECF team and its community of partners. She is currently a member of Power of Nutrition’s Technical Advisory Group and also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Maternal & Child Nutrition. Prior to ECF, Yashodhara was an Associate Director at Results for Development (R4D) overseeing the nutrition team's data and learning practice. During her time at R4D, Yasho led DataDENT, a five-year initiative aimed at strengthening the nutrition data value chain, evidence review to inform the African Development Bank’s nutrition strategy and costing and financing analyses. Yasho holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a BA (Honors) in Government from Dartmouth College.