Akash Chopra is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Boston College, specializing in comparative politics with a focus on the political economy of development and the intersection of religion and politics in South Asia. He earned his MA in Analytical Political Economy from Duke University in 2022 and his BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University in 2020. Akash is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy for the 2024-2025 academic year. He is one of Reset DOC’s former students (Dublin 2023).