About
Yash Agarwal
Hello there – thank you dropping by 🙂 I’m a Public Policy Professional with 6 years of experience at ICANN, Twitter, the Indian Parliament, Consulting and building the largest pan-India community for policy and social impact. Skilled at communications, advocacy, strategy, stakeholder management, government relations, CSO partnerships and public affairs. What drives me is the transformative potential of sound policy choices to be a force for good. Fluent in English, Hindi and Bangla.
Alongside my day jobs, in these past 5 years I’ve built – PPI (PublicPolicyIndia.com), a knowledge platform dedicated to the cause of Public Policy – we make public policy issues engaging and accessible while supporting thousands of young Indians make a career in this space. We work across all 4 pillars of careers, content, community and capacity building. The simple mission here being – grow the entire pie of Public Policy. Help grow the industry overall, the number of jobs here, institutions here, people working in this space, students taking up policy as their majors and so on! Policy matters, Politics matters, it’s about time we made this everyone’s business!
Before that, I worked for Twitter India and South Asia for a couple of years in a policy and partnership role.
Preceding my stint at Twitter, I worked as an Associate Consultant at Chase India, a public policy advocacy and consulting firm based out of New Delhi working with clients across sectors and focus areas. Earlier, I worked as a LAMP Fellow to a 4-term State Cabinet Minister of Assam and current Member of Parliament.
I’ve also had the experience of working with the Government of India, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Pratham, BJP’s National Vice President Mr. Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda’s Office, Teach For India, among others.
When not at work – mostly reading📖, playing tennis🎾, brewing coffee☕️, travelling or exploring the 100s of unique experiences New Delhi has on offer on the weekends!
Have an idea? Wish to collaborate? Share suggestions/feedback? Or Just wanna catch up? Drop me a line in DMs or at – yashagarwal.co
My Mission
All my work is centred around supporting tens of thousands of Indians to build meaningful careers in the broader Policy and Political space in India, collectively guide and improve the systems that govern us and that we all are a part of.
A part of it also involves help build capacity for organisations as well as individuals working in this broader space so that we can all deliver on our goals and missions, better and more sustainably as a career choice as well, beyond being here for the sense of impact!
What's My Story?
Lived experiences throughout childhood have ingrained within me the criticality of why Public Policy matters, and how policy choices can lift millions of families into prosperity and change their fate forever.
This drives my passion towards democratising career opportunities in the broader policy, governance and impact space accessible for all.
On the other hand, as a technology policy professional, I firmly believe sound policy choices in this realm can transform entire industries and the attendant user experience and value for billions of individuals.
Hence a focus on taking up responsibilities in the realm of corporate policy, government relations and public affairs – with a focus on technology as a sector!
A ton of optimism (glass is always half-full!), a bit of luck, a willingness to experiment and in my understanding, actively seeking out learning has landed me the wonderful opportunities and institutions I’ve had the privilege being a part of these past 6 years, and I remain very, very grateful for this space : )