Senior Fellow; Co-Leader of Foreign Policy
Medha is a Foreign Policy Research Associate with ACE and a graduate student at The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. The school has awarded her a Global Initiative Fellowship for her accomplishments. She has a bachelor’s in Economics and International Relations from Ashoka University, Sonepat, India. She is also a founding member of the International Relations society at Ashoka University. Her parallel literary interests in holocaust memoirs has had a significant effect on her academic pursuits. In her free time, Medha plays basketball and watches war documentaries.
While working as a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Medha assisted with an in depth econometric study on the Indian defence expenditure and the corresponding civil military relations. This year she completed a human rights thesis as a part of the Ashoka Scholars program. The thesis specifically asks ‘Why the United Nations Security Council is ineffective in carrying out collective action against clear cases of genocide?’ She is now specialising in international human rights law and IO’s. She plans to do a comparative study on contemporary cases of genocide as the culmination to her master’s degree. Currently she is concerned with the vacuum in international leadership during the Cov-SARS-2 pandemic.
Medha joined ACE because she is interested in the tumultuous political discourse on foreign policy in the United States. She firmly believes that American posturing on the world stage has incredible potential for good. Importantly, Medha postulates that informed publics in western democracies have a remarkable influence on the decision making landscape.