Nandan Sharalaya
Writer, Editor, and Researcher in Bonn, Germany
Nandan Sharalaya is a German Chancellor Fellow (Bundeskanzler Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung) and is currently working on a cluster project that is seeking to institutionalise in India, best practices in city development and municipal urban strategy from Germany and Europe at large.
He is also Visiting Scholar at the WHU School of Management in Vallendar, Germany’s premier school for management education. His study titled ‘Get Smart or Get Lost- Institutionalising German Cooperation in the Development of Intelligent Cities in India’is sponsored and hosted by the WHU’s Institute for Industrial Organization.
Till recently, he headed the Congress Party’s Parliamentary Research and Strategy Unit and was responsible for managing legislative research for 110 Members of Parliament from both the houses. He was previously a L.A.M.P Fellow (Legislative Assistant to a Member of Parliament) with PRS Legislative Research in New Delhi. He has also been a Fred J Hansen Fellow in Leadership and International Cooperation at the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences.
Nandan is a visiting faculty in several media and policy schools in India. He has taught courses and workshops in legislative public policy, international development, political science, political communication and advocacy at the MIT School of Government in Pune, University of Minnesota’s I.D Program, Jindal University, Christ University etc.
He is Founding Editor of Decent Neta, an opinionportal on politics and policy in India and also contributes a fortnightly blogfor the Huffington Post. In the past, his writings have appeared in severalnational magazines and portals including Tehelka, Gateway House, Swarajya etc.
Nandan holds a Masters degree in International Studies and Diplomacy, majoring inInternational Economics and Climate Policy from the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies (SOAS) University of London. He holds a Bachelor’s degree inCommunication from Symbiosis International University, India.
He tweets @sharalayanandan