Crawford shines at 2026 Raisina-IE Global Student Challenge
Two Crawford teams have won first place at the 2026 Raisina-IE Global Student Challenge in New Delhi.
Team 5 with Associate Professor Hoa Nguyen as academic supervisor, and Team 10 with Master student Al Danial Roskushairi as a participant, topped their groups in the respective topics of AI Governance for Civilian and Military Use.
Danial explains, “As a team, we developed and submitted three deliverables - the proposal report, executive summary and presentation slides – before we presented our proposal during the in-person sessions between 5 and 7 March 2026.”
He was nominated by Crawford to attend, saying that he encourages other Masters students to be considered for upcoming years mainly due to wider exposure with ‘trending’ topics and the rigour of undertaking the whole challenge. “Ultimately, the trip to New Delhi was a great reward in itself,” he added.
Hoa Nguyen added "Earlier this year, I had the privilege of serving as an Academic Advisor in the 2026 Raisina-IE Global Student Challenge, a collaboration between the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India, and IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, Spain. Set within the framework of the Raisina Dialogue — India's flagship platform on geopolitics and geo-economics — the challenge brought together exceptional graduate students from 75 top Schools of Government and Global Affairs across eight regions to tackle pressing global governance questions."
She was assigned to to Team 5 that included six public policy students from Uganda, Singapore, Switzerland, Jordan, Mexico, and India and they were tasked with developing a governance proposal on AI for civilian use. "The challenge asked teams to grapple with one of the most pressing questions in global policy today: how do we ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence reach all of humanity, not just those in high-income countries? With 2.6 billion people still offline and Global South nations severely underrepresented in AI governance forums, the stakes could not be higher. Our team focused on equitable access to AI, designing a framework with concrete recommendations spanning infrastructure, capacity-building, and inclusive governance mechanisms."
"What made this experience genuinely memorable was not the outcome — though the team did go on to win first prize at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi — but watching six students who share a public policy training yet bring vastly different lived experiences, regional perspectives, and cultural contexts to the table. Spanning six countries across four continents and multiple time zones, they found a shared language for complex problems and produced exactly the kind of grounded thinking that global AI governance so urgently needs," she added
"It was a reminder that good policy is always richer for diverse voices at the table — and that the next generation of policy leaders is in very good hands."
