Zeba Siddiqui is interested in gender, climate change, and public health. She joined Athena Infonomics in August 2023, and prior to that, she worked as a Research Associate with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in their evaluation division. In this position, she interacted with a variety of donor organizations, such as USAID, FCDO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the City Cancer Challenge (C/Can). She has also worked on research projects with the World Health Organization, the National Council of Educational Research and Training, and the Public Health Foundation of India.

Zeba has a diverse portfolio of work, ranging across education, climate change, gender, and health. She has experience in stakeholder management, project management, knowledge management, quality assurance, critical appraisal, data analysis, policy, and research writing.

Her previous work includes the impact evaluation of agricultural insurance policies across West Africa and India; research on transparency and accountability in natural resource management in select countries in Africa and Latin America; qualitative assessment of the National Rural Livelihood Mission in tribal regions of Jharkhand and Maharashtra; designing theories of change for climate-litigation policies; gender mainstreaming in public health policies in India; qualitative studies on public health practices and antibiotic resistance in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR); and an assessment of English-language training in Delhi government schools.

Zeba holds a Bachelor's in Sociology from Delhi University, a Master's from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and an MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. Her MPhil thesis explored the current medical system and the doctor–patient relationship through a critical post-modern lens.