Reetika Khera is a development economist and works on social policy in India. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad.

She studied at the Delhi School of Economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) and Institute of Development Studies, the University of Sussex (M.Phil.). She was a post-doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where she worked on child nutrition. She has published in professional journals, magazines, and newspapers on issues of food security, NREGA, education, child nutrition, and elections in India.