Devanshee Shukla

Welcome!

I'm Devanshee, a PhD candidate in Strategy at INSEAD. I am on the 2026-2027 academic job market.

My research lies at the intersection of strategic human capital and emerging markets. In my dissertation, I study how firms in emerging economies create and manage their talent pipelines and human capital. To explore these questions, I leverage field experiments  and large proprietary datasets, collaborating closely with public firms and large non-governmental organizations. My work has received multiple Best PhD Paper Awards (2025, 2026) by the SMS Strategic Human Capital Group and the Singapore Rising Scholars Award.

In my Job Market Paper, I run a randomized field experiment to study how firms build talent pipelines in nascent sectors by overcoming frictions in information availability and information credibility. In India's rapidly scaling solar manufacturing sector, I find that credible recruitment substantially expands the talent pipeline and changes its composition by drawing in more marginalized candidates without any detectable decline in applicant quality. This work has been awarded the 2026 SMS Best PhD Paper Prize.

Before my PhD, I completed a Masters in Public Policy at National University of Singapore and an M.Tech in Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur.