Sayali is as a Research Associate at the Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory where she works on understanding financial matters that deeply concern mental health, like insurance for mental illness, cash-transfers and their impact on mental health and various budget allocations for mental health at the national & state level.

Sayali is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has Commerce degrees from Mumbai University (R A Podar College of Commerce & Economics).

Sayali has previous experience in asset management, teaching financial economics to PG students and Artificial Intelligence usage in finance and healthcare.

She is proficient in German and loves to get lost in her thoughts after reading and climbing Pune tekdis (hills).