Anirudh Suri is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie India. His interests lie at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, climate, and strategic affairs. He is currently exploring how India is carving and cementing its role in the global tech ecosystem and the role climate technology can play in addressing the global climate challenge.
He is the author of The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations (HarperCollins, 2022) and is currently the managing partner at India Internet Fund, a technology-focused venture capital fund based in India and the United States. He has also written extensively on foreign policy, geopolitics, cybersecurity, climate, technology, and entrepreneurship in publications such as the Indian Express, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Foreign Policy, the Print, the New Republic, Economic Times, MoneyControl, and Asia Times.
Previously, he has worked with the government of India in New Delhi, McKinsey and Company in New York, Goldman Sachs in London, and China Institute of International Studies in Beijing. He completed his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He has also studied Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Named a Goldman Sachs Global Leader, he has also served on the board of the Harvard Alumni Association.
Donald Trump's potential return to the White House could significantly impact India's technological ambitions. His anticipated techno-nationalist policies, including restricted access to AI innovation and intensified competition, necessitate India's strategic positioning as a key player in the global AI landscape.
Much of the top talent in Silicon Valley is of Indian origin. India must bring at least some of them back and provide necessary research ecosystem to flourish.
Daron Acemoglu, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2024, and author of ‘Why Nations Fail’, and ‘Power and Progress’, shares his views on emerging technologies like AI and India’s economic development journey.
A conversation about how India can become a technological hothouse, formulate a global tech strategy, and help develop technology that puts humans first.
In this episode of Interpreting India, Anirudh Suri is joined by Madhumita Murgia, author and AI editor of the Financial Times, to examine the profound impacts of artificial intelligence on society in her new book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadows of AI.
Awareness, guidelines for ethical use, and accountability by Big Tech can help leverage AI for the public good, says Suri, whose book The Great Tech Game and eponymous podcast highlight how technology is shaping the destiny of nations.
As news broke of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, being unceremoniously ousted by the company’s board this weekend, it sent shockwaves across the tech industry. So, what might have led to his sudden ouster, and what will be the implications for OpenAI but more importantly, for the world of tech and AI?
Anirudh Suri was in conversation with Jaspreet Bindra at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival.
In this episode, Emmanuel Lenain joins Anirudh Suri to discuss India-France relations.
Anirudh Suri lays out a visionary 3-stage plan for India to become a leader in climate tech.