Deepa Iyer served as a senior research specialist in 2010-2011. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School with a certificate in South Asian Studies, and a master of science degree in development economics from Oxford University. Before joining ISS, she held summer positions with an urban affairs NGO in India, the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania and with a hedge fund in London. She currently works with the Oliver Wyman Group in San Francisco. She is in the MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.