Founding Team
M. Sri Bharat
President of GITAM
Prateek Kanwal
Co-Founder, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Dean
Syed Akbaruddin
Former Permanent Rep. of India to the UN
Advisory Board
Rathin Roy
Managing Director, Research and Policy, ODI
Steve Jarding
Former Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Dilip Cherian
Political Campaign Advisor Communications Consultant
Ram Mohan Naidu
Member of Parliament, 17th Lok Sabha
Priyanka Chaturvedi
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Anil Swarup
Author, Retired IAS Officer
M. V. Rajeev Gowda
Former Member of Parliament; Chairman, Congress Research Department
Moshik Temkin
Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and Intl. Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. Menaka Guruswamy
Senior Advocate,
Supreme Court of India
Navtej Singh Sarna
Former Indian Ambassador to the US & Israel
Our Team
Ajesh Panicker
Operations Manager
Arun Kumar M
Marketing Manager
Aryaman Chatterjee
Academic Associate
Hitesh Kakkar
Director – Admissions & New Initiatives
Kankana Talukdar
Program Associate
Monish Choudhary
Graphic Designer
Neelam Mehra
Deputy Director, Career Fulfillment
Neha Rathore
Administrative Assistant
Pritish Anand
Academic Associate
Priyanka Roy
General Manager – Admissions and Outreach
Rituja Ghosh
Academic Associate
Shivangi Pandey
Academic Associate
Shreya Maheshwari
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Shubham Arya
Academic Associate
Rashad Khan
Academic Associate
Sreshtha Majumdar
Academic Associate
Shivangi Sharma
Program Manager
Vishnu Menon
Admission Advisor
Technical Support
Aluri Chakradhar Sarma
Sr. Videographer
Jitendra Biswal
AV Engineer
Ravuri Srinivas
AV Technical Associate
Vemali. V. Seshagiri Rao
Asst. Manager PCR
Support Staff
P. Lalitha
N. Venkata Raman
Build a career
in public policy
Our program’s combination of academic rigour and on-ground experiences will give you the confidence to assume leadership in any career of your choice. Some of the popular avenues you can choose after your Master’s Program in Public Policy (MPP) include:
Private Sector
This includes business consultants, policy consultants of large corporations, policy analysts, and private policy implementation organizations. Courses on financial reporting, management, cyber security, etc. focus on these streams.
Public Service
This includes policy making and implementation, government roles, and political candidates, who can leverage subjects like politics, public policy design and analysis, ethics, constitution and law, political campaign management, etc.
Global Affairs
This spans a variety of domains ranging from positions within the Government of India and international organizations like the World Bank and United Nations to positions within international NGOs like ICLEI, ITF, and WWF. Students will need to grasp the value and potential of diplomacy within the framework of foreign policy toward creating collaborative and cooperative ties focused on common goals and objectives.
Non-profit or Social Enterprise
The Master’s Program in Public Policy (MPP) helps build capacity in entrepreneurship with a focus on different sectors within social development. Subjects such as gender, strategy, organization behavior, energy and climate change, negotiation, corruption, etc. help build all-round skills to drive greater impact in this sector.
Media & Communications
Aspiring media, journalism and communications professionals who focus on public sector topics can leverage subjects like communication for leaders, macroeconomics, global trade and policy, data visualization, business government, and society.
Research & Academia
This includes Think Tanks & individuals who want to teach, pursue research, and push policy thinking in India and globally and can leverage courses on research methodologies, quantitative analysis, and macroeconomics.
