Nikita Lalwani ’20 and Geng Ngarmboonanant ’21 have been named Associate World Fellows for 2019 by the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale University.
“Associate World Fellows are important contributors to the group, joining all academic, intellectual and social aspects of the World Fellows’ experience,” the Program said in an announcement. “As Yale students, they help World Fellows navigate the University’s extensive resources and contribute U.S. perspectives to the conversation.”
The Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program is a four-month, full-time residential program based out of Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
The Program provides World Fellows the opportunity to expand their vision, learn from each other, and grow personally and professionally. World Fellows contribute to Yale’s intellectual life, give talks and participate on panels, collaborate with peers, audit classes, and mentor students.
The 2019 Fellows bring the total number of World Fellows since the program’s start in 2002 to 346 Fellows, representing 91 countries.
Past Associate World Fellows from the Law School have included Jasmeet Ahuja ’13, Jacob Sullivan ’03, and Josh Rubin ’20.
Nikita Lalwani ’20 is a student at Yale Law School, where she is an Executive Editor of the
Yale Law Journal and a member of the Rule of Law Clinic. She has also served as co-president of the Yale Law National Security Group, co-director of the Yale chapter of the International Refugee Assistance Project, and as a Kerry Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Before law school, she worked as a staff editor at
Foreign Affairs magazine in New York, where she commissioned and edited articles on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, and helped teach a course at Columbia Journalism School on gender and migration. She also spent a year reporting for
The Wall Street Journal in New Delhi, India, covering politics, global health, and women’s and LGBT rights. In May 2013, Nikita received her undergraduate degree from Yale, graduating magna cum laude and with distinction in English. She also has an M.Phil. in American History, with first-class honors, from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote a dissertation on U.S. refugee policy during the Cold War.
Geng Ngarmboonanant ’21 is a student at Yale Law School, where he is co-president of the Yale Law Democrats, vice president of the National Security Group, and executive editor of the
Yale Journal of Law & Technology. Before law school, Geng served as a legal fellow at the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he drafted bills, memos, and speeches on issues ranging from immigration to social media regulation to the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian electoral interference. Previously, Geng worked as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, where he co-founded the New York office’s Public Policy Discussion Group. He was also a fellow at New America, a research intern at Brookings, and has published over 30 editorials in the
Washington Post. In May 2015, Geng received his undergraduate degree from Yale, where he graduated cum laude with distinction in Ethics, Politics & Economics. Geng grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and immigrated to the United States at age 14.
