Biography
Kanishkh is the Schwarzman Academy Fellow with the US and Americas Programme. His current research revolves around the security and defence policies of the United States. He is interested in exploring broader questions of US–China relations and competition in the Indo-Pacific.
He holds a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University and an MSc in Global Affairs from Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing. In the past, he has worked at various think-tanks, including Carnegie China and Brookings India. He has also interned at the UN Human Rights Council and the Afghanistan Mission to the UN in New York.
Past experience
| 2023-24 | Young Ambassador (Research Team), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Carnegie-Tsinghua Center) |
| 2022 | Human Rights Intern, United Nations Human Rights Council, Office of The High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| 2021 | Diplomatic Intern, Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations |
| 2020 | Research Intern, Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Brookings Institution India Center (now Centre for Social and Economic Progress) |