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India's Transformed Horizon: A Conversation with Rahul Gandhi

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament of India and former President of the Indian National Congress Party, about Indian domestic politics and the U.S.-India partnership. This seminar will be moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns and is open to Harvard affiliates or by invitation only.

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Rahul Gandhi

ABOUT

Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

Since 2004, Rahul Gandhi has been a Member of Parliament. He currently represents the constituency of Wayanad in Kerala in the Lok Sabha. In 2007, he was named General Secretary of the Indian National Congress in charge of the youth and student organisations of the Party which were democratised during his tenure. In January 2013, he assumed office as Vice President of the Indian National Congress. He served as President of the Indian National Congress from December 2017 to July 2019. The Indian National Congress is India’s oldest political party and won the country its Independence in 1947. Today, it is India’s principal opposition party.

Rahul was born on June 19, 1970 to Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi. He has attended St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, Harvard College and Rollins College, Florida from where he graduated with a Bachelor of  Arts. He went on to receive an M. Phil. in Development Studies from Trinity College, Cambridge University. Thereafter, he joined the Monitor Group, a strategy consulting group, in London, where he worked for three years.

In the past, Rahul was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs,
Human Resource Development, External Affairs, and Finance and the Consultative Committee
for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Rural Development, and the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs. Currently, he serves on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs.

Rahul has championed the development of a self-help group movement and a non-profit eye care provider in Uttar Pradesh. He also serves as a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.