Arpit Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Policy Insights (GPI) – a centrist think tank focused on Governance, International Political Economy, International Security Studies and Sustainability, based out of New Delhi, New York, and London. He is also the Co-Founder of EnviPol, an environmental consulting firm based out of New Delhi. He is the Co-Director of the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship and serves as a Co-Chair on various international affairs forums such as the QUAD Security Forum. He serves as an Advisor to the Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts and is a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council. He has been a Lecturer at the San Francisco State University where he taught a graduate level course on Comparative Perspectives in Public Administration. He serves as the Director, and Faculty of Comparative Public Administration at the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellowship. He was also part of the founding academic team of the Indian School of Public Policy where he served as an Instructor of Public Policy and the founding Academic Coordinator. He is the author of the book “Our Egalitarian Universe?” and has been the editor of “Not Without her: Communal Harmony” – a monograph by the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, Government of India, with essays from the top civil servants of the country. He is a regular columnist and has been published in various publications such as the Diplomatist, The Quint, South Asia Journal, Cornell Policy Review, Times of India etc. He serves as the Senior Expert Editor, International Political Economy and Governance at Defence and Intelligence, Norway. Arpit has worked as the Chief-of-Staff and Legislative Assistant to Kalvakuntla Kavitha, Member of the Indian Parliament. He has been an associate at the National Commission for Scheduled Castes - an Indian constitutional body appointed by the President of India to safeguard the rights of the Scheduled Caste Population of the country. He has also worked as a management consultant at Right Management India Pvt. Ltd. A graduate of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Arpit holds an MPA degree with a focus on Governance, Politics, and Policy Studies. He was also the first non-US citizen to hold the position of the Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Policy Review. He was the recipient of the Cornell Celebr (ASIAN) International Student Award (2018) for outstanding achievements as a graduate student (primarily for his writings). Arpit also holds an MBA in Human Resource Management from Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.