Utkarsh was awarded the scholarship to pursue Master in International Development Economics from Harvard Kennedy School. Currently he is a PhD candidate in public policy at the University of Oxford. He also holds a BA Economics and LLB from the University of Delhi as well as LLM from Harvard Law School. Before graduate school, Utkarsh practised law before the Supreme Court of India and worked as a Consultant to the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, the World Bank, and the Boston Consulting Group. Utkarsh plans to return to legal and policy practice with the Supreme Court and Government of India in a few years.