Chaya Nayak

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Public Policy Research Manager

Chaya Nayak is a Public Policy Research Manager at Facebook, where she leads research initiatives around how to use data to generate positive social impact and address policy issues. Prior to her work at Facebook, Ms. Nayak was a Data Scientist on the Solutions Engineering team at a startup Premise where she helped International Organizations understand policy impact through real-time econometric surveying. Most notably, she led work with the Philippines Government and the World Bank to monitor the economic impact of the Philippines Sin Tax Law in near real time as it was implemented. Ms. Nayak received a Masters of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley, where she focused on the intersection between Public Policy, Technology, and Utilizing Data for Social Impact.