Dr Ashrita Saran is the Deputy Director, Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis Programme at the Global Development Network (GDN). She has worked on essential areas of evidence synthesis, including economic evaluations for women, children and adolescents’ health, climate-smart agriculture, violence against children, disability, child well-being, and methods for evidence synthesis. She led the methods paper on evidence mapping approaches, which informed the development of the Campbell guidelines on evidence mapping. She is also an Editor for the Campbell International Development Coordinating Group (IDCG), an advisory group member of the JBI Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative and a Co-Convener of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group.