Nikita Singla is an International Trade, Logistics and Inclusion Specialist with 12 years of experience in South Asia. She has experience of working across more than 40 ports in the South Asia region. She has advised the Governments of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan,  and Sri Lanka in varying capacities on trade, logistics and inclusion-related issues.
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She has been leading the Ministry of Finance's Time Release Study - an annual assessment of cargo clearance at 15 ports in India for the last 5 years (2019-2024), and conducted a similar trade facilitation assessment for the land ports in Bangladesh and Bhutan. She has also written extensively on the prospects of resuming bilateral trade between India and Pakistan.
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Concurrently, she is a Consultant to the World Bank's Trade, Transport and Regional Integration practices and a Non-resident Scholar, South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC.
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She was Quad Infrastructure Fellow 2024 to the US Department of State focusing on secure and sustainable infrastructure at ports; and Visiting Fellow 2024 to Stimson Centre's South Asia program in Washington DC, where she focused on identifying areas for US-India collaboration in cargo clearance.
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She is an engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Masters in International Economic Policy from Sciences Po Paris.