About Aroop

​Aroop (pronounced R-roop) was born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. He received his BA in Math and Political Science from Williams College, studied for two years in London as a Marshall Scholar, and received his PhD in Public Policy at Harvard University, where he studied American foreign policy and presidential decision-making in the William McKinley (1897-1901) and Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) administrations. He currently is an Associate of the Applied History Project at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Eurasia Group Foundation.

In addition to hosting Snack Break, he also hosted the Belfer Center's foreign policy podcast at the Harvard Kennedy School (called Office Hours) and another podcast for the NGO Sense and Sustainability. He published a book on education and diplomacy in 2016 with Palgrave Macmillan, and has published foreign policy opinion pieces in War on the Rocks, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Yale Journal of International Affairs, and The New Republic. His academic research has been published by Negotiation Journal and The Journal of Applied History.

When he's not thinking about policy, he's listening to Darlingside.

Twitter: @aroopmukharji
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2016 Washington D.C. book launch and panel discussion with Ambassador Bill Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and 17th Deputy Secretary of State, and Tom Friedman, Op-Ed columnist for the ​New York Times ​(photo by the British Embassy)
2017 Cambridge, MA book launch and panel discussion with Dr. Esther Freeman, Director of Global Health Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Joshua Bennett, member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (photo by Catherine Jonash)
2017 interview with Secretary Madeleine Albright, 64th Secretary of State, for the Marshall Plan's 70th anniversary (photo by Shannon Spence)
2017 interview with Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, for the Marshall Plan's 70th anniversary (photo by Shannon Spence)
2017 Boston panel discussion on American education with Dr. Cappy Hill (10th President of Vassar College) and Dr. Hardin Coleman (fmr Dean of Boston University School of Education) (photo by Juan Baena)
2016 San Diego book presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Marshall Scholars (photo by Jeremy Smith)
2017 interview with Bert Koenders, Dutch Foreign Minister, for the Marshall Plan's 70th anniversary (photo by Pierce Harman Photography)