Karuna Nandkumar

Head of Policy Programmes

Karuna is the Head of Policy Programmes at the Oxford China Policy Lab. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and diplomacy. Prior to OCPL, she worked on Indo-Pacific policy at the US Department of Defense in D.C. and coordinated US-China Track II dialogues with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Beijing. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. She received her MA in Global Affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and her BA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.