Priyanka Chakravarty is the new full-time Program Manager for the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She joined the Einaudi Center and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs in September 2020, where she has managed a diverse portfolio of projects, including the Einaudi Center’s Global Racial Justice research priority and its work with threatened scholars, undergraduate internships, graduate and postdoctoral fellowships, and the Global Public Voices faculty fellowship.

In the past, she has worked with ASER Centre / Pratham, one of India’s largest NGOs working in the field of primary education, and she interned with UNAIDS as well as CNN-News18 (the sister channel of CNN in India) and Business Standard (a leading financial newspaper in India). Over the years, she has gained experience in areas of governance, policy analysis, policy advocacy, and communications. As part of her research, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in rural India, in addition to interacting with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, from policymakers to senior bureaucrats.

Priyanka grew up in India, where she received a multidisciplinary education. She has an MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Law and Governance and a Masters in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. She also has a Bachelor’s in Journalism from Delhi University. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oslo, Norway.

When not working, she loves traveling to new destinations and trying out new cuisines.