To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Biography
Kavita Surana's research interest is in the intersection of clean energy, climate change, and innovation, with a particular focus on public policy in countries looking for ways to address challenges such as energy access or environmental degradation while ensuring economic development.
She is a consultant on energy and climate to the World Bank and other organizations and previously worked on electricity markets and power generation investments at ICF International. Kavita developed her own innovative technologies for solar cells at the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) during her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (INP-Grenoble), France. She was an Erasmus Mundus scholar at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France and holds a B.Sc. in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India.
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