Aparajita Mridha

Aparajita Mridha is a career civil servant with the Government of India, currently an undersecretary with the Ministry of Communications.

An MPA ’24 from the Harvard Kennedy School, she is a recipient of the Raymond and Josephine Vernon Award and the Lucius Littauer Award for significant impact.

She has prior experience in legislative drafting and parliamentary procedure in India, implementation of financial inclusion programs, and representing the Indian government in and FTA negotiations.

Her area of interest focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and representation in international trade in South and South-East Asia.