Aashish Khullar is a Carr Center Fellow who has worked in multilateral global governance within the United Nations ecosystem for over 12 years, specifically on stakeholder engagement, intergovernmental negotiations, and inter-agency coordination on contemporary and emerging issues in sustainable development and peace and security.
His substantive focus includes deliberations on climate change and biodiversity (including its security implications), rapid technological change, outer space governance, risk and resilience, global economic governance, diversity of knowledge systems, and the future of multilateralism. This has involved engaging a range of non-state stakeholders in various UN processes to include diverse perspectives, facilitating intergovernmental negotiations on key topics to build consensus, and coordinating inter-agency affairs for better institutional alignment.
Most recently, he led stakeholder engagement for the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework on DRR, connecting it with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, and started and coordinated the initiative on the Future of Multilateralism in the Context of Emerging Issues.
At the Carr Center, he is working on the Global Governance Lab to strengthen linkages with current global affairs. He is also a fellow at the Royal Society of the Arts and a member of its system thinking network. In addition to being a Kennedy School alum, he holds a graduate degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution and an undergraduate degree in Banking and Finance.