Vishnu Arul - Introduction

Hi everyone! My name is Vishnu Arul and I will be serving as a Vice Chair for the Joint Cabinet Crisis Committee for BMUN 69. I am currently a sophomore at UC Berkeley studying Economics and Business Administration and hope to enter government policymaking or regulation in the future. This will be my 7th year doing Model UN, and the 6th time serving on a conference secretariat.

Outside of Model UN, I enjoy watching YouTube, losing money on the stock market and playing video games. My most recent investment was in the GME stock (it's gonna go to the moon), and currently, I am finishing up Dark Souls Remastered before I start Pikmin 3.

If you have any questions about anything I just talked about, the conference, or even just Berkeley, feel free to email me (varul@bmun.org), and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing all of you in committee!

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