Hartej Singh

Project Associate, CEGIS

Hartej comes to IIC after working at the intersection of politics and public policy, as an aide to a Member of Parliament where he helped in shaping overall strategy, iterating political messaging, streamlining the communications & research pipeline, and building working relationships & partnerships- across the political, policy, non-profit space. Seeing grassroots politics in an unfiltered form has made him appreciate the ability of politics to actualize positive change. Prior to this, he worked in a research project on the use of technology in public service delivery, which showed him that, for technology deployment in governance to be successful, people-centric governance processes with strong feedback loops and improved state capacity are a prerequisite.

An alum of Tata Institute of Social Sciences and University of Hyderabad, he believes in the development potential of life choices and that most of India's governance & policy innovations in the coming years, will happen at the subnational level in Indian states.