After completing his school in the year 2002, Yashodhan Ghorpade pursued BA (Hons.) Economics at the Hans Raj College, Delhi University, and completed MA in Development Economics, with distinction from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and Oxford Policy Management Ltd., in New Delhi. Yashodhan won the prestigious Marie Curie ITN Doctoral Student Fellowship to pursue a PhD in Economics at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He completed his Ph.D. in 2016 and joined the World Bank as an Economist in the Education Global Practice through the World Bank’s highly competitive Young Professionals Program, in September 2016. Yashodhan is also an avid reader, tennis player and an amateur stage actor.