Aparna Krishnan is a senior advisor on Evidence to Policy (E2P) government partnerships and capacity building efforts, including the use of administrative data for research and policy. She leads the internal organizational learning agenda on pathways to evidence use and scale in working with governments. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), India. 

Over the past two decades, Aparna has set up and led as the Project Director, several strategic partnerships to institutionalize the use of data and evidence within governments. These include J-PAL South Asia's flagship State partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu; a large-scale project leveraging administrative data under the Innovations in Data, Experiments and Action (IDEA) initiative; and the interdisciplinary India Climate and Health Data Capacity Accelerator. Aparna has also served as the Executive Director of J-PAL South Asia, and in this role, launched and managed several large-scale research projects and partnerships across sectors of environment, health, governance and others. She engaged extensively in policy outreach and capacity building activities with state and national governments in India, multilateral and civil society agencies.