Current Students

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Tunç holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University where he served as the President of the Undergraduate Student Council during his senior year. He spent his junior year of high school in Massachusetts with the U.S. State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange Program and completed his study abroad semester at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to Princeton, Tunç worked at Kale Group of Companies, one of Turkey’s largest industrial groups, supporting the company’s corporate, public, and international affairs along with coordinating Kale Foundation’s international initiatives, working directly with senior leadership. Before that he was at Koç Holding where he was tasked with a similar role. Tunç has volunteered for different causes including intercultural exchange and dialogue, environmental protection, and promotion of sustainable development goals. He returned to Turkey to complete his MPA internship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Istanbul. At Princeton, he hopes to further his understanding of the relationship between development, regime types, and foreign policy. Tunç is pursuing a joint MPA/MBA with the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is in residence at Stanford for the 2026 spring semester. 

Aaron is originally from Holland, Michigan. Before coming to Princeton, he worked at the office of Congressman Seth Moulton where he supported the representative's foreign affairs and defense portfolio. Aaron assisted with the office's work on the annual appropriations package and the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act, researching and drafting legislation that will become federal law. In 2023, Aaron graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa where he majored in political science. While in college, he interned for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Department of State’s Office of Foreign Missions. Aaron also studied abroad in London and in Jordan as a Gilman Scholar. He is a 2024 Thomas R. Pickering Fellow and will join the U.S. Foreign Service after completing his MPA.

Originally from India and the U.K., Nudhara is an incoming MPA at SPIA with a focus on economics and public policy. She was formerly Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., and previously worked on the Sustainable Development Goals and Strategic Foresight with the United Nations Development Program. She has supported both Indian state welfare ministers in designing social inclusion programs at the grassroots, and the British Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in U.K.’s Parliament. Her interests primarily lie in reform and evolution of the multilateral system and how coalitions can be mobilized around change and accountability. In this vein, she served as Co-Chair of the U.N. Civil Society Conference in Support of the Summit of the Future. When she is not losing sleep over the future of multilateralism, you’ll find her cooking, playing tennis, or complaining about how mangos taste so much better back home in Chennai. After SPIA, she hopes to return to working on the future of the U.N. system, and helping it navigate new economic environments.