Zeba Siddiqui is interested in gender, climate change, and public health. Prior to joining Athena Infonomics, she worked as a research associate with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in their evaluation division. In this position, she interacted with a variety of donor organizations, such as USAID, FCDO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the City Cancer Challenge (C/Can). She has also worked on research projects with the World Health Organization, the National Council of Educational Research and Training, and the Public Health Foundation of India.  

Zeba has a diverse portfolio of work, ranging from education, climate change, gender, and health. She has experience in stakeholder management, project management, knowledge management, quality assurance, critical appraisal, data analysis, policy, and research writing.  In the past, she has worked on projects related to: the impact evaluation of agricultural insurance policies across West Africa and India; transparency and accountability in natural resources across select countries in Africa and Latin America; qualitative assessment of the National Rural Livelihood Mission in tribal belts of Jharkhand and Maharashtra, India; designing theories of change for climate-litigation policies;  gender mainstreaming in public health policies in India; the qualitative assessment of public health practices and their ramifications on the prevalence of antibiotic resistance across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR); and the assessment of English-language training provided to students across government schools in Delhi.

Zeba holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from Delhi University, a Master's from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and an MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. She wrote her thesis in the domain of medical sociology, wherein she explored the nuances of the current medical system and the doctor-patient association, through a critical post-modern lens.