Arrian Ebrahimi

Arrian Ebrahimi was born to Iranian immigrant parents in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from St. Edward’s University in 2021 with a B.A. in Economics. He was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University in Beijing from 2022 to 2024, where he wrote and defended his master’s thesis in Mandarin. Alongside his academic institutions, he considers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), and the pink dome of Texas State Capitol as citadels of his intellectual growth.

Using the chip industry as his entry point, Arrian has analyzed and shaped U.S. industrial policy and U.S.-China relations. Over two years working at SIA in Washington, D.C., he was active in advocating for passage and shaping the early implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. As a student in Beijing, he began his own semiconductor policy consultancy called Chip Capitols, publishing analyses in The Washington Post, Institute for Progress, the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri), and Siècle Digital. Before matriculating to Georgetown Law, he spent the summer of 2024 interning at TSMC’s legal department at their Hsinchu headquarters.

At Georgetown, Arrian looks forward to studying the most quintessentially American of academic programs, while keeping a foot in topics like export controls, intellectual property, and antitrust that will keep him engaged with technologists around the world. In his free time, Arrian is an oft-injured cross-country runner turned triathlete, a lover of poems by Hafiz and Ferdowsi, novels by Stendhal and Yourcenar, the teachings of Confucius and Zhuangzi, as well as anything written by any of the Inklings. He speaks English and Persian as native languages, French at a C1 level, and Chinese at an HSK 6 level.