Gautam Mukunda is a student in MIT's Political Science Ph.D. program focusing in international relations. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company focusing in the pharmaceutical and financial industries. He is currently the Founding Managing Director of the Two Rivers Group, a consulting firm that brings the insights and knowledge of the academic world to bear on the problems facing the private, public, and non-profit sectors. He worked at the Kennedy School of Government as Administrator of the Russian Investment Symposium and as Program Coordinator of the Kommersant Program on Executive Education in Russia. He also founded Excelsior Education, which focused on providing mathematics enrichment to highly gifted students. His current research interests include the role of leaders in international relations, the impact of network effects and feedback loops on hegemonic stability, the influence of Black Swan events on international security, and the implications of emerging technologies on international security. His outside interests include history, politics, baseball, sailing, weightlifting, and the performing arts. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Government in 2001, magna cum laude. He is a 2005 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow, a 2006 Carnegie Endowment Biosecurity Fellow, and a 2007-2009 National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow.
