Dan Kent is a second-year MPP student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, focusing on democracy and technology.

Prior to attending Yale, Dan’s career spanned education, policy research, and philanthropy. At the Mellon Foundation, he led strategic research initiatives for his team and managed a program portfolio of over $100 million in grants. He has also served as a policy researcher at Research for Action, where he consulted for public sector and nonprofit clients. His first full-time position was at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where he managed the full cycle of recruitment and partnership development across Latin America, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and music from William & Mary, where he won the Ewell Award for leadership and the Dalton Award for commitment to public service. He also holds an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania, which he attended as the Dean’s Centennial Scholar of his cohort. He has attended both the Middlebury Summer Chinese Language School as a Davis Fellow for Peace and the National Taiwan Normal University as a Huayu Scholar and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

At Yale, he is the Editor in Chief of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, works as a research consultant for the Telescope Foundation, is a researcher with the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, and served as the policy chair for Yale’s Responsible AI in Global Business Conference. Over his graduate summer, he was a Summer Associate with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in London, where he worked with the Global Tech Partnerships team as a Rosenthal Fellow and Coca-Cola World Fellow.