Nidhi Nair

Nidhi Nair is a junior from Farmington, CT majoring in Economics and Mathematics-Statistics. She grew up in India and is a recent immigrant to the United States. Nidhi serves the UConn community as the President of the Economics Society, founder and Executive Director of the Invisible Hand Speaker Series, as Treasurer of Women and Minorities in Economics, as a Werth Innovator, a resident assistant, and as a United Nations Millennium Fellow. Beyond UConn, Nidhi was a PGPF intern at the Cato Institute, an alumnus of the Summer Honors Program at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research intern at the Hamilton Project in the Brookings Institution. She is passionate about advancing a bipartisan approach to the financial inclusion of underrepresented minorities, and is currently working on a research project to study the financial literacy rates of undergraduates at the University of Connecticut, with an emphasis on first-generation and minority communities. Nidhi hopes to pursue a PhD in economics and work in domestic fiscal policy.