Tejas Bharadwaj

Tejas Bharadwaj is a senior research analyst with the Technology and Society Program at Carnegie India. He works on space law and policies, tracking India’s space sector developments as well as issues pertaining to space security and sustainability globally. He also works on AI in military domain, including Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), defense tech partnerships and cybersecurity policies.

Tejas is part of the team that convenes Carnegie India’s annual flagship event, the “Global Technology Summit” co-organized with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

Earlier, he was a prospective member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) from 2023-2025, and part of its working group on “light pollution of the night sky from the space law perspective” from 2021 to 2023. He has contributed to United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, International Astronomical Union, and European Southern Observatory’s Dark and Quiet skies for Science and Society Working Group in 2021. In 2020, he was awarded “The Prof. Dr I.H.Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award” by IISL for his paper “Protecting the Dark skies of the Earth from Satellite Constellations under International Space Law.” He has co-led SGAC Space Law and Policy Project Group's “Space Sustainability team” from 2020 to 2023, authoring the report on “National Implementation of U.N Long-Term Sustainability in space (LTS) Guidelines”. He has also participated in international conferences such as the International Astronautical Congress and has also conducted sessions on space policies at various institutions.

Tejas is an alumnus of the School of Law, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun.