Ronak D. Desai

Expertise

• US Congress
• National Security
• The Indian Subcontinent
• Oversight and Investigations
• Lawfare
• Geopolitics
• Strategy

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  Ronak D. Desai

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  Ronak D. Desai is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His extensive legal and policy experience in both the public and private sectors sits at the intersection of law and policy, focusing on the Indian subcontinent, US-India relations, diaspora politics, the US Congress, crisis management, and oversight and investigations.

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  Ronak D. Desai is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

  His work sits at the intersection of law and policy, focusing on the Indian subcontinent, US-India relations, diaspora politics, the US Congress, crisis management, and oversight and investigations.

  Desai is a partner and the firmwide leader of both the India and Congressional Investigations practices at Paul Hastings LLP. He advises clients on a broad range of complex investigative, regulatory, litigation, compliance, and public policy matters.

  He has extensive legal and policy experience in both the public and private sectors. From 2014 to 2016, he served as counsel to a prominent select committee on Capitol Hill, his fifth time serving in Congress. In the private sector, Desai continues to advise members of Congress on legal, investigative, and foreign policy issues.

  Desai serves as general counsel and board director of the Partnership for a Secure America, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, DC, promoting bipartisanship on Capitol Hill through its flagship Congressional Partnership Program.

  He also teaches a popular course on US foreign policy toward the Indian subcontinent at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

  A frequent author and commentator, he writes regularly for leading publications in the United States and the Asia Pacific. He has written across a wide spectrum of outlets, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Bloomberg Law, and The National Law Journal.

  From 2013, Desai served as a nonresident fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs India and South Asia Program, as well as an associate at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, both at Harvard University.

  He earned his undergraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and joint public policy and law degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude and receiving the Dean’s Scholar Prize.

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