Jay Jyoti Chaudhuri

Jay Jyoti Chaudhuri, special counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, and a commentator on current issues for News India-Times, is among the 18 American Fellows to win the Marshall Memorial Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship is awarded by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) to 18 Americans and several Europeans to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge between the two regions.

The Marshall Memorial Fellowship program selects young policy and opinion leaders from

14 European countries and the United States, enabling them to gain an in-depth understanding of societies, institutions and peoples across the Atlantic.

Chaudhuri, who is currently visiting five European cities as a Marshall Fellow, goes first to Brussels, Belgium, for briefings on European and transatlantic institutions, before traveling with a few other fellows to visit cities and small towns in northern, central and southern Europe. He will complete his fellowship with the whole group in Berlin or Paris.

During the three-four week traveling program, fellows on both sides of the Atlantic are expected to develop a broad knowledge of political, economic, cultural and social issues in their host countries through meetings with city officials, school teachers, police officers, government officials, business leaders, labor organizers, farmers, activists, religious leaders, academics and members of the community whotheir homes to them.

At the North Carolina Attorney General’s office, Chaudhuri manages a number of initiatives, primarily on education and children’s issues. Earlier this year, he completed a William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations, a two-year fellowship awarded to North Carolinians for leadership development.

Prior to attending graduate school, he convened the first National Indian American Students Conference at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

He also served as a legislative aide to Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI) and clerked for the Honorable Linda M. McGee of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and served as legislative counsel to Roy Cooper, when he was State Senate Majority Leader.

A member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Race Relations Committee and the North Carolina Black Lawyers’ Association, Chaudhuri is on the board of directors of the Indian

American Leadership Incubator and serves as a commentator on select current events for

News India-Times. He also tutors children at Smith Elementary School in Garner, North

Carolina.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he attended public school. A graduate of Davidson College, with a major in South Asian Studies, he earned a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University, New York, through a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and received his J.D. from North Carolina Central University, cum laude, where he served as executive editor of the Law Journal.By Ela Dutt



Jay Jyoti Chaudhuri, special counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, and a commentator on current issues for News India-Times, is among the 18 American Fellows to win the Marshall Memorial Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship is awarded by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) to 18 Americans and several Europeans to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge between the two regions.

The Marshall Memorial Fellowship program selects young policy and opinion leaders from

14 European countries and the United States, enabling them to gain an in-depth understanding of societies, institutions and peoples across the Atlantic.

Chaudhuri, who is currently visiting five European cities as a Marshall Fellow, goes first to Brussels, Belgium, for briefings on European and transatlantic institutions, before traveling with a few other fellows to visit cities and small towns in northern, central and southern Europe. He will complete his fellowship with the whole group in Berlin or Paris.

During the three-four week traveling program, fellows on both sides of the Atlantic are expected to develop a broad knowledge of political, economic, cultural and social issues in their host countries through meetings with city officials, school teachers, police officers, government officials, business leaders, labor organizers, farmers, activists, religious leaders, academics and members of the community whotheir homes to them.

At the North Carolina Attorney General’s office, Chaudhuri manages a number of initiatives, primarily on education and children’s issues. Earlier this year, he completed a William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations, a two-year fellowship awarded to North Carolinians for leadership development.

Prior to attending graduate school, he convened the first National Indian American Students Conference at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

He also served as a legislative aide to Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI) and clerked for the Honorable Linda M. McGee of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and served as legislative counsel to Roy Cooper, when he was State Senate Majority Leader.

A member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Race Relations Committee and the North Carolina Black Lawyers’ Association, Chaudhuri is on the board of directors of the Indian

American Leadership Incubator and serves as a commentator on select current events for

News India-Times. He also tutors children at Smith Elementary School in Garner, North

Carolina.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he attended public school. A graduate of Davidson College, with a major in South Asian Studies, he earned a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University, New York, through a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and received his J.D. from North Carolina Central University, cum laude, where he served as executive editor of the Law Journal.