Nusrat Farooq

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Graduate School Student

Bio:

Nusrat is pursuing her PhD at Yale University in international relations and political economy, specializing in the political economy of advanced compute (AI) competition between firms and states. She holds an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Kashmir. She has served organizations such as the World Bank, UNICEF, New America Foundation, Columbia Law School, India Institute, and Global Internet Foundation for Counterterrorism (which was founded by Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and X, formerly Twitter, which exited in Sep 2024).

She has been invited to the UN-Office of Counterterrorism twice for presentations to heads of states. She has been published by Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, and by Columbia Public Policy Review. She is also a contributor at Tech Policy Press. She has been recognized as an emerging leader by Germany’s Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit and by Morocco’s Policy Center for the New South.

Contact:

nusrat.farooq@yale.edu

Education:

  • Master of Public Administration, 2021, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Areas of Interest:

  • International Relations
  • Political Economy