Yash Agarwal

Manager, Global Stakeholder Engagement

ICANN

May 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)

At The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) "the nonprofit that runs the internet" - • My scope of work includes maintaining an extensive network of key stakeholders in South Asia, driving partnerships to expand ICANN’s presence and deepen our engagement in the region. It also includes public affairs and government relations management, including monitoring policy/regulatory issues to enable a stable, secure, unified global Internet for all. • The role also actively supports overseeing the regional office’s overall engagement strategy, plans and activities, including leading in programs/initiatives in partnership with the regional community, across all 6 countries in the South Asian region.

Public Policy Associate

Twitter

Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 (11 months)

• I started at Twitter as their first-ever Public Policy Fellow from India (designated as a Public Policy coordinator). Was promoted to the role of a Public Policy Associate within a record 8 months. As a part of the Public Policy team for Twitter India and South Asia - I focused on external partnerships, government relations with state governments and union ministries, campaigns with civil society/NGOs, XFN efforts around elections, #TwitterForGood, civic integrity and policy research analysis work for the Policy team in India & South Asia. • In particular, I led the #TwitterForGood partnerships vertical: working with NGOs on increasing Twitter’s engagement, executing corporate social responsibility initiatives such as the #AdsForGood pr

Public Policy Coordinator

Twitter

Feb 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Working as Twitter’s first-ever Public Policy Fellow from India (technically designated as a Public Policy coordinator). Public Policy Fellowship is a year long program designed for professionals who want to learn more, and help with, Twitter’s approach to public policy challenges in India. Some of my primary responsibilities include: As a Public Policy Fellow, I’m responsible for monitoring public policy issues and conducting key research into pressing tech policy issues related to Twitter and our users in global markets. #TwitterForGood: I work with NGOs on increasing Twitter’s engagement, helping to coordinate the platform’s global #TwitterForGood days of service, and other corporate social responsibility initiatives such as the p

Founder

Public Policy India

Jul 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

• PPI is a knowledge platform dedicated to the cause of Public Policy that I founded 5 years back and currently lead. It is a startup that serves to make policy issues more engaging and accessible for everyday Indians, while also enabling them to build meaningful careers in this space. • We work on all 4 pillars to actively help build and grow the broader public policy and social impact space in India - A) Content - The Policygram - https://thepolicygram.com - The PolicyGram is our content arm at PPI wherein we humanise day-to-day developments and bring out the policy angle in such issues to drive home the point why policy matters, policy choices do. B) Community - The PolicySphere - PPI has built and runs local policy+social impact chap

Government/Public Affairs Consultant

Chase Advisors

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year)

Chase India, founded in 2011, is APAC's leading research and public policy consulting firm. Chase India counsels private sectors, NGOs and investors with research-based inputs to help navigate India & South Asia's complex political, legal, policy and regulatory environment. My focus included strategic, regulatory, policy research and support to a range of clients cutting across focus areas and sectors like health, technology, communications etc. in India, centred around driving government relations and corporate affairs. Responsibilities: Monitoring political, regulatory, and policy developments in India and analyzing the impact on clients. • Identifying key stakeholders and leading engagement, alignment & collaboration. • Creating a solu

LAMP Fellowship

PRS Legislative Research

May 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year)

Legislative Assistant to a former 4-term Minister in the State Cabinet and now Member of Parliament of the Indian National Congress, from Nagaon constituency in Assam. • Selected to a cohort of 50 from 5000+ applicants - Appointed as a Legislative Assistant to a former 4-term Minister in the State Cabinet and now Member of Parliament of the Indian National Congress, from Nagaon constituency in Assam. • Responsibilities: Policy Briefs on various legislations to be addressed in the Parliament alongside managing communications for the MP Office. Interventions on matters of National Importance through a range of Ministries, and also to raise issues concerned to the MP's constituency. The MP was among the 100 most active lawmakers in first year

Capacity Building And State Coordination Intern

Government of India

May 2019 - Jun 2019 (2 months)

Worked as a Capacity Building And State Coordination Intern at the National Health Authority (NHA), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the Ayushman Bharat Yojana. Part of a team which conducted a pilot study at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences to evaluate the performance of the scheme and recommend ways to enhance its uptake and impact.

Communications and Public Policy Intern at Office of Baijayant "Jay" Panda

Parliament of India

Oct 2018 - Dec 2018 (3 months)

I worked with Mr. Panda’s Public Policy and Communications team. My work involved Research, Preparing Briefs, Drafting Backgrounders, Preparing certain databases, Handling Online Media presence and attending a range of events and interacting with a series of stakeholders.

Research Intern

National Institute of Advanced Studies

Nov 2017 - Dec 2017 (2 months)

I researched on a variety of topics for the Conflict department at the inter-disciplinary institute, primarily on Left Wing Extremism. I also co authored a 'Backgrounder' on Naxalism in Chhattisgarh which is due to be published in early 2018.

Intern

Teach For India

Nov 2016 - Dec 2016 (2 months)

I worked as a volunteer under the aegis of - Teach For India, at a primary school in Chennai for a period of almost two months. It was a wonderful Insight into the grassroots education sector in India.

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