Policy People Podcast: Serial 'Policy Entrepreneur' with Arpit Chaturvedi

Welcome to the Policy People Podcast. In this conversation, I talk about policy entrepreneurship with Arpit Chaturvedi. We discuss post-grad degree choices for policy entrepreneurs, how entrepreneurship works in the policy sector, the importance of mentorship for policy innovation, how to use systems thinking to identify new opportunities, the shortcomings of traditional policy schools, how to design research programs that address the global commons, the fate of developing countries within superpower competition, India’s coming demographic crisis and it’s aged care policy, as well as many more topics.

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Arpit Chaturvedi is the Founder of Global Policy Insights, a multi-national think tank, and Co-Founder of Envipol, an environmental policy consultancy. After completing an MBA at the Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource Development, Arpit went on to complete a Masters of Public Administration at Cornell University, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Policy Review. He is now a lecturer at San Francisco State University, where he teaches Comparative Perspectives in Public Administration. He also heads the GPODS Fellowship Program as an educational extension of his Global Policy Insights tank. You can find out more about the fellowship program at gpods.org or discover his tank’s research at globalpolicyinsights.org. You can connect also with Arpit on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter, where his handle is @arpitchtr.

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