Dr. Nivedita Sharma completed her Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee. Later she accomplished her Post-Doctoral Fellowship from JNU, New Delhi. Her work mainly focuses on agricultural marketing, value chains, and rural development. Her publications have appeared in reputed journals such as EPW, Taylor & Francis and Sage journals. She has also attended various conferences, and seminars nationally and internationally.

Previously, she worked with Centres for International Projects Trust as an Associate Fellow. She has also worked for reputed organisations such ActionAid, WEIGO and FAO as a consultant. Academically, she was awarded University Gold Medal by Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2008 for first rank in her Masters. She was also awarded Junior Research Fellowship (2010-2014) by University Grants Commission. She was also awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by ICSSR for two years (2016-2018) to carry research at JNU.