Nishit Sahay is Senior Advisor-External Relations at George Mason University’s Institute of Immigration Research (GMU-IIR). He leads center’s external relations efforts that build and sustain IIR’s expertise and offerings to the wider audience nationally and globally. He works closely with faculty, staff and key persons in the university to enhance academic and research collaborations of the center with Universities, public and private institutions, donor organizations and philanthropic groups.

Sahay holds M.S. in Transportation, Policy, Operations & Logistics (TPOL) from George Mason University; M. Sc. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi; Master’s in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Bachelor’s in Science with honors in Physics from Ranchi University, India.