Alisha Chhangani is an associate director at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. She supports the Center’s future of money work, leading research on payments systems, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets. Her research and comments have been featured in media outlets including BBC, Financial Times, Washington Post, the Economist, and Politico.

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, she worked at the Asia Society Policy Institute on cybersecurity and data privacy issues in Southeast Asia.

Chhangani holds a bachelors’s degree from American University’s School of International Service with a certificate in applied statistics, graduating with magna cum laude honors.