Gilles Verniers is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Karl Loewenstein Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Amherst College. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Sciences and Co-Director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, which he founded, at Ashoka University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris in 2016 and has trained in Political Science, International Relations, and Economic and Social Ethics at the universities of St.