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Nimai Mehta is a Professor at American University teaching STAT-202 Basic Statistics and STAT-204 Intro to Business Statistics for Spring, Summer, and Fall 2025 terms. His research centers on data quality assessment under varying institutional frameworks with practical applications in social policy domains.
He earned a Masters in Applied Economics from Bombay University and Doctorate in Economics from George Mason University.
Professor Mehta's research spans Economics, Statistics, and Data Science with emphasis on institutional data systems. He leads a university-wide multidisciplinary initiative applying machine learning to improve data on missing and exploited children, and previously directed a UNICEF project analyzing education data quality in Myanmar's reform context. His work integrates empirical methods with institutional analysis of government failure mechanisms.
Prior appointments include Academic Director of a national Economic Policy Program, Research Fellow at University of the Philippines' Center for Integrative and Development Studies, Visiting Scholar at James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, and Adjunct Professor at George Mason University's Economics Department. He currently serves on the Academic Council of India's School of Public Policy in New Delhi.
