Nitesh Anand is a Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Scholar and an India Fellow with over thirteen years of experience. He holds a Master's in Politics and Technology from Technical University Munich, Germany. Notably, Nitesh was awarded the Liberal Ambassador certification, where he was thoroughly trained in political facilitation, enhancing his skills in designing and delivering dialogue-based engagement with different stakeholder groups. Nitesh is a Policy Advisor to the Department of Policy, Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports (MoEYS), Cambodia. Additionally, he has contributed to meaningful policy development, social accountability evaluation and outreach in countries like India, Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Germany. 

Nitesh studied engineering for his bachelor's and is passionate about human-centred design and legal design approaches for creating participatory platforms for policy design, dialogue and discourse. He envisions contributing to a liberal global world order of choice, freedom and opportunity for every individual.