Bio

Aishwarya joined Founders Pledge in August 2023 as an Applied Researcher specializing in building frameworks to evaluate interventions aimed at avoiding carbon lock-in in emerging economies.

Aishwarya completed her doctoral studies at the UC Berkeley School of Law where she was a Robbins Fellow for International and Comparative Legal Research. Her thesis titled "Nuclear Power Projects in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa - Balancing Stakeholder Perspectives and the Law” was recognized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Global Forum and MIT’s Nuclear Rising Stars Programme. Aishwarya also holds a Master of Laws with dual specialization in Energy and Clean Technology Law and Environmental Law from Berkeley Law, a specialization in International Nuclear Law from the University of Montpellier in France, and degrees in Business Administration and Law from the SNDT University in Mumbai, India.

Q & A with Dr. Aishwarya

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

I would choose Dr. Kalpana Chawla. She was the first Indian-born NASA astronaut who came from a small town in India close to my hometown. She has been a source of immense inspiration for me since I was a child and I would love to talk to her about her journey breaking barriers and achieving impossible things.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a writer who travels the world writing novels and poetry. I accomplished a part of that by becoming a legal researcher. Now I travel the world writing papers and memos which are a bit less poetic, yet quite fun.

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

It would be an adventure fiction about a traveler who keeps losing her navigation tools and getting lost on her journeys but ends up discovering wonderful places along the way. I would like Priyanka Chopra to play me.