Varun Sen Bahl is an MPP student at Duke University. His areas of expertise include privacy, platform regulation, and AI governance. Prior to starting at Duke, he worked in technology policy in India as a lawyer, researcher, and public policy consultant for over 8 years. Most recently, he was a public policy manager at Nasscom, India’s largest tech industry association with 3000+ members, managing the government affairs and policy portfolio across regulatory issues. Before that, he worked as a research fellow at an autonomous institute under India’s Ministry of Finance and as a legal consultant to leading non-profits in India. He started his career at a regulatory law firm in India, where he advised the government on telecom policy and digital regulation. He holds a double bachelor’s in arts and law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.