Nusrat Farooq

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 (domestic and international). 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).

As an expert member of the high-level committee Critical Infrastructure as Vulnerable Targets, she has been invited to the UN-Office of Counterterrorism (UN-OCT) for closed door briefings to heads of nation 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.