Ishan Nagpal
About Ishan Nagpal
Ishan Nagpal is a Legal Counsel specializing in Regulatory & Compliance at Arista Networks, with extensive experience in cybersecurity and anti-corruption law.
Company
Ishan Nagpal currently works at Arista Networks, a publicly traded S&P 500 company, where he serves as Legal Counsel specializing in regulatory and compliance matters. In this role since 2022, he advises on trade compliance and regulatory issues.
Title
Ishan Nagpal holds the position of Legal Counsel - Regulatory & Compliance at Arista Networks. His expertise encompasses cybersecurity and anti-corruption law, where he applies his knowledge to manage and resolve complex legal, business, and regulatory matters.
Education and Expertise
Ishan Nagpal earned a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he studied Market & Regulation, Finance & Policy, Data Analytics, and Computational Social Science from 2019 to 2021. He also holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.) from the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Law, where he studied from 2012 to 2015. Nagpal completed a B.S. in Public Health at Santa Clara University, finishing his studies in 2012.
Previous Legal Experience
Before his current position, Ishan Nagpal accumulated a diverse array of legal experiences. He worked as an attorney at the Law Office of Majeed Samara from 2018 to 2019 and at TENSEGRITY LAW GROUP LLP in 2018 in the San Francisco Bay Area. His earlier roles include serving as a Post-Bar Legal Intern and Attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office from 2015 to 2017 and for a brief period in 2017, respectively.
Teaching and Editorial Roles
Ishan Nagpal worked at the University of Chicago from 2020 to 2021 as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Simultaneously, he held editorial roles at the Chicago Policy Review, serving as Executive Editor and Board Member from 2020 to 2021 and as Senior Editor, Science & Technology, from 2019 to 2020. These roles reflected his commitment to academic and professional development in public policy research and analysis.