Timeline and Key Dates

Nitin Pai is co-founder and director of the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy. His current research includes the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific; defence economics and the politics of radically networked societies.

Narayan Ramchandran is one of Takshashila’s co-founders. He worked on Wall Street (mostly at Morgan Stanley) for over 20 years, most recently as head of global emerging market investing and then country head of Morgan Stanley in India.
Narayan’s column in Mint can be found here.

Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution. His current research includes high tech geopolitics and the politics of radically networked societies. He teaches public policy, international relations, and public finance at our graduate and post-graduate programmes.

Sarthak is an Assistant Professor at the Takshashila Institution. He teaches economic reasoning and researches public finance. Before his foray into the public policy domain, he worked as an educator and a telecom engineer. He has completed Takshashila's PGP in public policy and holds a dual degree from BITS Pilani. Sarthak has completed the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Public Policy from the Takshashila Institution

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Manoj Kewalramani is a Fellow-China Studies at The Takshashila Institution. His research focuses on Chinese politics, foreign policy and approaches to new technologies. Manoj is the author of Smokeless War: China’s Quest for Geopolitical Dominance.

Anupam Manur is a Professor of Economics at the Takshashila Institution. He previously worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, after completing his Masters in International Business (Economics) from Lancaster University. He is the Managing Editor of Indian Public Policy Review.

Ameya Naik is an Associate Fellow (non-resident) with the geostrategy programme at the Takshashila Institution. His research covers Indian foreign policy, diplomacy, international organisations, and international law. He also co-teaches the Introduction to Public Policy Analysis course as part of the Policy School.

Aditya is an Associate Fellow with the Takshashila Institution. A journalist by training, he has previously worked at Mint and as a freelancer. He has also researched and written on colonial-era Indian military history.

Mihir Mahajan is an Adjunct Fellow at Takshashila and is the Chief of Staff at IP Spring LLC, a boutique US law firm that specializes in intellectual property matters. Mihir’s experience includes developing IP strategy, managing patent portfolios, patent transactions, and preparing and prosecuting patent applications.

His research interests are competition policy, intellectual property, privacy, and microeconomics.

Shruti Viswanathan is the founder of The Equals Project. She is a lawyer and policy professional with over 13 years of experience working with national and international organisations in building just, inclusive societies. She is a graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Shruti has a Masters from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is focused on contributing to community-led social change.

Rajeswari Sengupta is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, India. In the past she has held research positions at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) in Chennai, San Francisco Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC and Reserve Bank of India, Delhi.

Vishwanath S is a civil engineer and urban planner with 38 years of experience primarily in the water sector. He is part of Biome Environmental Trust. In the past he has taught as a Visiting Faculty at the Azim Premji University, written a weekly column for The Hindu, and worked for a Public Sector HUDCO. His current interests include the integration of livelihoods aspects with rainwater harvesting and wastewater reuse.

Abhinav Sekhri is a lawyer based in Delhi, practising across various courts. His main areas of interest are criminal law and history. He runs the Proof of Guilt blog discussing criminal law and procedure.