Dr. Nitin Pai is the co-founder and director of the Takshashila Institution, an independent center for research and education in public policy. His research focuses on the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, defense economics, and the politics of radically networked societies. He teaches international relations and public policy at Takshashila’s graduate programs. A gold medalist from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, he previously worked for over a decade as a policymaker in Singapore’s technology sector.