Pranav Pattatathunaduvil is a second-year Master’s in Public Policy student in the Yale Jackson School’s BA/MPP program in Global Affairs. He graduated from Yale with a BA in global affairs in May, and he is passionate about analyzing Asia, especially U.S.-India-China relations and the tech competition within the Indo-Pacific region. Pranav works as a research assistant for Rush Doshi, former NSC deputy senior director for China and Taiwan, focusing on U.S.-China net assessment and India’s military potential against China. This summer, Pranav was a summer fellow with the Defense Innovation Unit, selected as the only student nationwide to intern for Admiral Samuel Paparo in the Commander's Action Group at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. He has previously interned at the State Department’s Office of Pakistan Affairs, the Special Competitive Studies Project, and the Hudson Institute’s South Asia team for Aparna Pande and Ambassador Husain Haqqani. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the Geopolitics of Technology Initiative, an organization dedicated to getting students around the U.S. engaged in topics and careers at the intersection of tech and international relations. Pranav spearheaded the first and second GeoTech Forums in Washington, D.C., which convened 200+ top STEM and policy students from around the country, as well as 60+ speakers, to analyze the future of emerging technologies and their role in global affairs. 

Pranav is also a member of the Yale Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, a former Hertog War Studies Fellow, and a former Alexander Hamilton Society National Defense Fellow. He received the 2024 Beck Prize, given annually by the Jackson School to a junior demonstrating deep interest in global affairs and national security. In 2021, he was the national champion in International Extemporaneous Speaking, and he was one of four students nationwide who received the 2020 Calvin Coolidge Presidential Scholarship, a full-ride merit scholarship to attend any U.S. university. At Yale, Pranav is also a dancer on Rangeela (Yale’s Bollywood Fusion dance team), the former co-president of the Yale Policy Institute, and the former chapter president of the Yale Alexander Hamilton Society. Pranav is from Plano, Texas.