1. Priyanka Das Rajkakati from Assam accompanies French President in India.
2. Artist and aerospace engineer, she proudly represents the Northeast.
3. Viral video shows her fluently conversing in French during the visit to Delhi.
Guwahati, Jan 27: Assam girl Priyanka Das Rajkakati has become a source of pride for the Northeast as she accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to India.
Hailing from Dhemaji in Assam, Priyanka is not only an artist but also an aerospace engineer based in Paris. In a viral video, she was seen conversing fluently in French with the French delegates during their visit to Delhi.
This is not the first time Priyanka has interacted with President Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2023, she was among the 250 guests invited when President Macron hosted PM Modi for dinner at the Louvre museum in Paris.
Later in November of the same year, Priyanka made headlines as she was part of a team of 80 women scientists who traveled to Antarctica for a 19-night stay, sponsored by Assam Tourism and the Government of Assam.
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During the expedition, she proudly carried Assam’s traditional Gamosa to Antarctica, becoming the first Assamese woman to set foot on the continent.
Currently residing in Paris, Priyanka is an Alumni Ambassador of the France Alumni program and has earned accolades such as Forbes India 30 under 30.
An alumna of St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and ISAE-Supaéro (Toulouse), she describes her work as an intersection of art, science, and society.
Her ambition is to explore how traditional artistic and cultural practices worldwide can contribute to sustainable space exploration.
Having co-founded the Franco-German space startup, The Exploration Company, Priyanka is now venturing into a unique initiative, an art-tech studio called Atelier Arth.
Currently, she serves as the Head of Special Projects at vorteX-io, a company focused on creating flood warning systems.
