About Me · Namit Kumashikar

I'm Namit. I'm a junior studying Economics at ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business, inside the Barrett Honors College, on a 4.00 GPA. I was selected as a Boren Scholarship recipient through the National Security Education Program (I chose to decline and pursue other opportunities), and this past year I helped present a Mexico country strategy to officials at the U.S. State Department. I grew up in Bangalore. The rest of this page is what sits underneath all of that.

Bangalore taught me that the most interesting questions live where systems meet humans. A traffic jam is an economics problem. A neighborhood Toastmasters chapter is a leadership lab. I bring that lens to everything: look closer, find the leverage point, then build.

At Barrett, I'm running two threads in parallel. The first is the quantitative work: econometrics, applied data analysis, policy modeling. The second is harder to teach but matters just as much: getting a room of skeptical people to track with you. Toastmasters taught me half of that, three years on the Model UN circuit taught the other half.

What I'm working on right now

Turning economic data into recommendations a non-economist can act on
Policy and emerging tech, especially where regulators are still catching up
Building things that outlast their founder — the Toastmasters chapter and the Digital Design Club both still run
Music theory, the badminton circuit, and any conversation about how Bangalore got built