Nihal J. Krishan is an award-winning journalist and tech policy scholar whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, USA TODAY, MSNBC, the Huffington Post, and The Hindu. His work recently won an international award for “Leading Washington’s tech policy conversations.”
With The Dialogue, he will be focused on research, writing and convening around the India-US corridor with an emphasis on key areas of risk and innovation when it comes to A.I., emerging technologies and their political, policy ramifications.
Most recently Nihal served as a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) IAF Fellow in Delhi and Washington, D.C which put him at the center of the US-India dynamic. While in Delhi, he was a resident fellow on Tech Policy with CSDR and reported regularly for The Hindu.
He’s been a journalist for the past decade in D.C. with FedScoop, the Washington Examiner, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and PBS Arizona.
He regularly interviews U.S. Senators, Congressmen, heads of federal agencies and top tech executives in Washington, Delhi and Silicon Valley. Nihal has broken multiple stories of national interest regarding campaign finance, economic policy, Big Tech developments and the recent explosion of A.I.
As a fun passion project, he co-created ‘Generative Series’ a successful live events series discussing topics at the intersection of A.I., Art & Culture with the renowned Phillips Collection museum and the LINE Hotel in Washington, D.C. Generative has been featured in DCist, the City Paper, POLITICO and The Washington Post.