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Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America
Meenakshi Ahamed, Neal Katyal and Siddhartha Mukherjee in conversation with Ramu Damodaran
In Indian Genius, Meenakshi Ahamed explores the extraordinary contributions of Indian Americans across the fields of technology, medicine, and public life. Through the vivid profiles of leaders such as Satya Nadella and Atul Gawande, she reveals the personal histories, cultural values, and relentless drive that have informed their achievements. Together with legal expert and former Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, Neal Katyal, and celebrated physician and biologist, Siddhartha Mukherjee, they speak to Ramu Damodaran and offer an insightful look at the contributions and the making of one of America’s most influential immigrant communities.
Neal Katyal is one of the foremost attorneys and a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States. He is a partner at Milbank’s Washington, DC office and serves as the Paul Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He has argued landmark cases at the Supreme Court on gene patents, Guantanamo, the Voting Rights Act, and corporate law. He received the Justice Department’s highest civilian honour, the Edmund Randolph Award, and was named as one of GQ’s Men of the Year in 2017. He has made appearances in Netflix’s House of Cards and Showtime’s Billions, playing himself in both instances.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, D.Phil., is a physician, researcher, and author who serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an oncologist at the University’s medical center. His award-winning trilogy of books has made a vast contribution to the public discourse on human health, medicine, and science, and his groundbreaking research has enabled the development of treatments that disrupt current pharmaceutical models towards new biological and cellular therapiesand are now being translated into a record number of concurrent clinical trials across the globe, spanning novel therapies for ovarian, breast, and endometrial cancer, and a variety of other diseases.
Ramu Damodaran has been the Permanent Observer of the University for Peace to the United Nations since 2024. In his earlier United Nations career, he designed and led the United Nations Academic Impact initiative, making more than 1700 universities and institutes of higher education and research part of this global network today, aligning activities and projects with the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America
Meenakshi Ahamed, Neal Katyal and Siddhartha Mukherjee in conversation with Ramu Damodaran
In Indian Genius, Meenakshi Ahamed explores the extraordinary contributions of Indian Americans across the fields of technology, medicine, and public life. Through the vivid profiles of leaders such as Satya Nadella and Atul Gawande, she reveals the personal histories, cultural values, and relentless drive that have informed their achievements. Together with legal expert and former Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, Neal Katyal, and celebrated physician and biologist, Siddhartha Mukherjee, they speak to Ramu Damodaran and offer an insightful look at the contributions and the making of one of America’s most influential immigrant communities.
Neal Katyal is one of the foremost attorneys and a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States. He is a partner at Milbank’s Washington, DC office and serves as the Paul Saunders Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He has argued landmark cases at the Supreme Court on gene patents, Guantanamo, the Voting Rights Act, and corporate law. He received the Justice Department’s highest civilian honour, the Edmund Randolph Award, and was named as one of GQ’s Men of the Year in 2017. He has made appearances in Netflix’s House of Cards and Showtime’s Billions, playing himself in both instances.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, D.Phil., is a physician, researcher, and author who serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an oncologist at the University’s medical center. His award-winning trilogy of books has made a vast contribution to the public discourse on human health, medicine, and science, and his groundbreaking research has enabled the development of treatments that disrupt current pharmaceutical models towards new biological and cellular therapiesand are now being translated into a record number of concurrent clinical trials across the globe, spanning novel therapies for ovarian, breast, and endometrial cancer, and a variety of other diseases.
Ramu Damodaran has been the Permanent Observer of the University for Peace to the United Nations since 2024. In his earlier United Nations career, he designed and led the United Nations Academic Impact initiative, making more than 1700 universities and institutes of higher education and research part of this global network today, aligning activities and projects with the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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