Shalin Jyotishi

Shalin Jyotishi is the Senior Program Manager at Burning Glass Institute. Shalin is a non-resident Fellow at the World Economic Forum and at the think-tank, New America. He is also a Forbes contributor covering workforce and education innovation.

Shalin’s mission is to solve problems about the workforce, education, policy, technology, and their intersections. His expertise has appeared on stages at the United Nations, Davos, OECD, World Bank, and the Education Writers Association, and in media outlets including NPR, Politico, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and Financial Times.

Previously, Shalin was a senior analyst and strategist at New America focused on higher education and labor, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest scientific society, where he co-authored a textbook on U.S. science and technology policy (Forthcoming MIT Press). Before that, he directed programs to empower university executives with technology-based economic and workforce development at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, North America’s oldest presidential higher education association.

Shalin was CEO and Managing Publisher of the internationally-acclaimed Journal of Science Policy & Governance and began his career in science policy at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Michigan, and in local election politics.

Shalin serves or served on dozens of advisory bodies including for the U.S. National Science Foundation, United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union, George Washington University’s Institute for Public Policy, Georgetown University’s Center on Security and Emerging Technology, Arizona State University’s Future of Being Human Initiative, and MIT Science Policy Review.

Shalin graduated from the University of Georgia and earned his M.S. in Public Interest Technology at Arizona State University.