Dr. Ishita Ahmed

Ishita is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the MAGIC Project and part of the Global Executive Function Initiative. She received her PhD in Education from Stanford's Graduate School of Education in 2025. Prior to her doctoral training, Ishita received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from The College of William and Mary and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also worked with the Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Innovations for Poverty Action on field randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh and Ghana, and was a consultant for the World Bank. Ishita's research focuses on how to promote equitable education for marginalized communities in the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries. Specifically, she aims to improve the measurement of psychological constructs for underrepresented children and integrate better measures into economic analyses of education intervention effectiveness.

Ishita is a recipient of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, the Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship, the Stanford King Center for Global Development Fellowship, and the Center for Measurement Justice-NBME Dissertation Fellowship.