Atharv Singh Highlights Role of Policy Convenings in Strengthening Modern Democracies
Nov 29, 2025
Chicago [USA], November 29: When Atharv Singh, 20, a Sciences Po undergraduate currently on exchange at Northwestern University--and the founder of The Emissary Network and Purus Research LLP--greeted former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Global Leadership Awards Dinner, the interaction was brief: a photograph, a few polite words. Yet what Singh carried forward from that moment was far more substantive. For him, the evening served as a distilled lesson in the operational reality of modern democratic governance. High-level convenings, he observed, are not ornamental gatherings--they are functional mechanisms for policy development, norm-setting, and institutional consolidation.
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