Avani Kapur is a public finance expert with nearly 2 decades of experience in studying India's welfare architecture including budget tracking, fund flows, data and governance systems and state capacity constraints as well as state-citizen engagements. Avani is a convener of the Global Public Finance Lab.

Avani is Founder and Director of ResGov and also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. Prior to this she was leading the Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research.

She has authored several articles, reports, and opinion pieces on state finances, India’s welfare architecture, and governance, and has conducted workshops and trainings with Indian Administrative Service officers, Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assemblies, Indian Economic Service Officers and Officers of the National Audit and Accounts Academy. In 2020, during the COVID 19 pandemic, she co-conceptualised the PULSE4Development platform seeking to bring the development community together to learn, share, and communicate better with each other. The platform hosts more than 112 organisations and over 200 individual members.

She is a Tech4Good Fellow, member of the WICCI Council of Ethics and on the editorial board of the Journal of Development Policy and Practice. Avani is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in the United Kingdom and Smith College Massachusetts, US.