About me

Hello :) I'm a Public Policy Professional with 6 years of experience at ICANN, Twitter, the Indian Parliament, Consulting and building the largest pan-India community for policy and social impact. Skilled at communications, advocacy, strategy, stakeholder management, government relations, CSO partnerships and public affairs. What drives me is the transformative potential of sound policy choices to be a force for good. Fluent in English, Hindi and Bangla. I'm 26, and was born and raised in Calcutta! Alongside my day job, in these past 4.5 years I've built - PPI (PublicPolicyIndia.com), a knowledge platform dedicated to the cause of Public Policy - we make public policy issues engaging and accessible while supporting thousands of young Indians make a career in this space. We work across all 4 pillars of careers, content, community and capacity building. The simple mission here being - grow the entire pie of Public Policy. Help grow the industry overall, the number of jobs here, institutions here, people working in this space, students taking up policy as their majors and so on! Policy matters, Politics matters, it's about time we made this everyone's business! Before that, I worked for Twitter India and South Asia for a couple of years in a policy and partnership role. Preceding my stint at Twitter, I worked as an Associate Consultant at Chase India, a public policy advocacy and consulting firm based out of New Delhi working with clients across sectors and focus areas. Earlier, I worked as a LAMP Fellow to a 4-term State Cabinet Minister of Assam and current Member of Parliament. I’ve also had the experience of working with the Government of India, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Pratham, BJP's National Vice President Mr. Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda’s Office, Teach For India, among others. When not at work - mostly reading📖, playing tennis🎾, brewing coffee☕️, travelling or exploring the 100s of unique experiences New Delhi has on offer on the weekends! Have an idea? Wish to collaborate? Share suggestions/feedback? Or Just wanna catch up? Drop me a line in DMs or at - yashagarwal.co