Tejas Bharadwaj

Tejas Bharadwaj is a senior research analyst with the Technology and Society Program at Carnegie India. He focuses on space law and policies and also works on areas related to AI in military domain, Defence tech and Cybersecurity. Tejas is also part of the group that works in convening Carnegie India’s annual flagship event, the “Global Technology Summit” co-organized with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

Currently a prospective member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Tejas was a part of its working group on “light pollution of the night sky from the space law perspective” from 2021 to 2023. He has contributed to UNOOSA, IAU, and ESO’s Dark and Quiet skies for Science and Society Working Group in 2021. In 2020, he was awarded “The Prof. Dr I.H.Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award” by IISL for his paper “Protecting the Dark skies of the Earth from Satellite Constellations under International Space Law.”

Earlier, he was the co-lead of SGAC Space Law and Policy Project Group's sustainability team. He has participated in international conferences such as the International Astronautical Congress and has also conducted sessions on space policies at the University of Mumbai. Tejas is an alumnus of the School of Law, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun.