Vishnu Kannan is a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. He was previously the advisor to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he led executive office strategic initiatives and the president’s research team.
His own work focuses on technology competition, political economy, and the legal dimensions of U.S. national security policy. Previously at Carnegie, he helped lead the Technology and International Affairs Program’s work on cloud computing and governance and supported research on influence operations.
Prior to joining Carnegie, he was also a writer at Lawfare and a researcher at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His writing has appeared in Lawfare and been cited in the New Yorker and the New York Times. He holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, where he studied International Relations, Political Theory, and Economics.