Pranay Kotasthane

Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme.

Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics and policy and technology. He has co-edited India’s Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order. He's the co-author of the public policy bestseller Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy (2023), and When the Chips are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis (2023).

Before joining Takshashila, he had stints with two Fortune 500 companies working on integrated circuit design for mobile processors.