Austin Bodetti is a second-year Master of Public Policy candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, where he is studying development economics and good governance. He spent his summer experience consulting for Yale Inclusion Economics in Nepal and northeast India and the World Bank in Sri Lanka, in addition to completing a remote fellowship with the Delhi office of the World Food Program. After graduating, Austin intends to pursue an overseas career with a development bank or public sector consulting firm.

Before arriving at Yale, Austin lived for four years in Rabat, Morocco, where he received two Fulbright grants to assess reforms to Morocco’s agricultural and energy policies. During that time, he served as a remote research associate for the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control and wrote hundreds of articles for publications including Middle East Eye, The Daily Beast, and USA Today. His work has also taken him to Iraq, Myanmar, and South Sudan.

A Connecticut native, Austin is a graduate of the Hopkins School in New Haven and earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies at Boston College. He speaks several dialects of Arabic and—thanks to his Neapolitan nonna—a bit of Italian.