Reetika Khera is a development economist and Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She taught at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad from 2018 to 2020. She completed her PhD in economics at the Delhi School of Economics.

She works on social policy and the welfare state in India documented in her recent book, Freebies or Rights, Understanding Social Policy in India. In 2018, she edited Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother (2019) which brings together critical perspectives on Aadhaar, India’s biometric ID system.

She received the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award in 2021 for distinguished contributions to Development Studies. She was an international visitor at the Standford Humanities Center (2017) and the ICCR Visiting Chair Professor at King's College London (2016).