Mira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at New School University where she directs the India portion of the Institute's Emerging Powers program. Mira is also a Senior Advisor to Digital Partners, a Seattle-based non-profit organization working to find solutions to the global digital divide. Her writing has appeared in publications around the world, including The International Herald Tribune, The Times of India, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
Of mixed Asian Indian and Danish-American ancestry, Mira Kamdar grew up between the West Coast of the United States and India. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in French Literature with a minor concentration on the history of the French in India from 1600 to 1800. She taught French and Comparative Literatures and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University before leaving academia for the world of international affairs and business in New York City, joining the World Policy Institute in 1992.
Mira Kamdar currently divides her time between New York City's East Village and the Pacific Northwest. She is at work on a novel set between India and an island in Puget Sound.