Ms. Pranusha Kulkarni is a PhD candidate in Public Policy, at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, specialising in governance of just energy transitions in global south. She is a recipient of two coveted fellowships in India – the Research and Writing Fellowship by the Just Transition Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2023-2024); and the Junior Research Fellowship in Law (2017) by the University Grants Commission, Government of India – awarded to top performers in the National Eligibility Test. Before embarking on her PhD, she has taught Jurisprudence and Family law-I at the Tamil Nadu National Law University, Trichy.
She has studied her LL.M. in Access to Justice from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai during which time she was awarded the Institute Gold Medal for the Best Student in Law. As the India Tech Policy Fellow, she is studying the effects of chips-related export controls on questions of justice and sustainability in general, and on the national sovereignty and domestic development trajectory of India in particular.
