Suhani Jalota is an applied microeconomist and an entrepreneur focused on labor markets, health access, and AI adoption in emerging economies. She is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where her field experiments examine barriers to workforce participation and health system access, and test AI-enabled interventions to raise productivity at scale. In 2015, she founded the Myna Mahila Foundation, a research-driven social enterprise dedicated to expanding women’s agency, health, and livelihoods. Jalota also founded and leads Stanford’s Future of Work for Women Initiative, a cross-sector initiative with the Hoover Institution to build evidence and partnerships to accelerate workforce entry and firm productivity.
