Billy Chan
Billy Chan is an MPP candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. His research at Yale focuses on establishing a framework for human rights in places devasted by conflict or at risk of genocide, delivering alternative means of education to communities living in such places, and exploring the economics of war and reconstruction.
Prior to Yale, Billy served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in the Republic of Georgia, where he collaborated with local communities impacted by regional conflicts, including the Russian-Ukrainian War and the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis. In this role, he worked on capacity-building projects to enhance educational access and organizational resilience. Through NYU’s Global Scholars program, he was able to study at NYU Shanghai where he explored China’s strategic expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative into Europe, along with the international economics of semiconductors. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and is eager to learn more Russian.
Human Rights, Education, Political Economics (Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Baltics)
Department: Global Affairs