Gopal Trital

Gopal Trital (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in the Technology Applications and Implications stream at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. He has a joint M.A. in international development, development economics, and global development policy from Palacky University (Czech Republic), University of Clermont Auvergne (France) and University of Pavia (Italy) and a B.A. in development studies from Kathmandu University.

Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he was a research scholar at the University of Pavia, where he conducted quantitative research and published articles on household food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan African countries. He also taught graduate-level courses on causal inference methods and data cleaning and management in STATA. His research interests include emerging technologies and their prospective role in innovative policy solutions, the use and misuse of digital space in inducing policy narratives and behavioral change, and the integration of data science advancements in program evaluation.