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< Back Ms Shruti Pandalai Shruti Pandalai is a Fellow at the Centre for Military Affairs/ Southeast Asia and Oceania Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Her research focuses on India’s foreign and security policy, India and evolving geopolitics in the Indo Pacific, China’s sharp power and influence operations, and strategic narratives on the India-China boundary dispute. She holds an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her upcoming publications include ‘India’s Stakes in The Indo Pacific: The Way Forward’, for Routledge India, and ‘Strategic Narratives from India’s Frontiers: What Arunachal thinks of the Boundary Dispute with China’, for MP-IDSA. Publications Blame Games Amidst A Protracted Deadlock—No Thaw In India, China Ties: https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/cag/publications/details/china-india-brief-191#.YXjM8aLh6Hs.twitter Why AUKUS is Gaining Acceptance in the Indo Pacific: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/australia-submarine-accepted-aukus-asia-indo-pacific-alliance-china-2206681 Chinese Checkers: Driving Alignments in the Indo-Pacific: https://www.idsa.in/idsanews/chinese-checkers-driving-alignments-in-the-indo-pacific

< Back RIVA GANGULY DAS EDITOR- FOREIGN POLICY riva@csdronline.com Ambassador Das joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986. She has served as High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Romania, Albania and Moldova and has served as Consul General in Shanghai and New York. She has also done postings in Spain and The Netherlands and has served in various capacities at Headquarters dealing with Nepal, Public Diplomacy, Passport & Consular, and United Nations. She has also served as the Director at the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Division and participated in environmental negotiations, particularly climate change. She was also the Alternate Permanent Representative of India to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague. She has also served as Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Before her retirement she was Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs. riva@csdronline.com 123-456-7890

< Back Dr Niloy Ranjan Biswas Dr. Niloy Ranjan Biswas is an Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka. He has undertaken his studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, and City, University of London, London, UK. In 2016, he completed his Ph.D. in International Politics from City, University of London. He was a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship (2010-12) to pursue the second Master’s degree in Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University, Washington DC. In 2017, he successfully completed the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)-Resolve Fellowship to conduct post-doctoral research on community policing and its challenges in preventing violent extremism. In 2020, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) offered him a visiting research fellowship to conduct an empirical study on Rohingya refugees and international protection mechanisms. Dr. Biswas has several academic and policy publications to his credit. He has written extensively on regional cooperation in Indo-pacific, South and Southeast Asia, deradicalization and preventing violent extremism, refugees and forced migration, and South Asian regional contributions to United Nations peace support endeavours. His most recent articles are published in National Security (VIF), Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, International Peacekeeping (Taylor & Francis), Journal of International Peacekeeping (Brill), Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BISSS) Journal and Mirpur Papers (Defense Services Command and Staff College, Bangladesh). Dr. Biswas is an adjunct Associate Professor at the Bangladesh University of Professionals. He frequently visits Bangladesh Foreign Service Academy, Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations and Training (BIPSOT), National Defense College, Defense Services Command and Staff College, and Bangladesh Ansar & VDP Academy as a guest speaker and subject matter expert. Publications

< Back Amba Wattal Research Assistant Amba is a Research Assistant at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research. Amba holds a Master’s in International Studies from Symbiosis International University, Pune. She has a Master’s in English Literature from Delhi University and a PG Diploma in Human Rights. India’s Neighbourhood Policy and South Asia are the domains that attract her interest.

< Back Mr Vidyadhar Anand Prabhudesai Vidyadhar Prabhudesai is co-founder of LeadCap Trust which impacted 10 million youth, and LeadCap Ventures which consults for governments like Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and international institutions like UN, World Economic Forum, World Bank and USAID. He is also the Founding Curator of Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum and Fellow of United Nations, Royal Society of Arts and Ford Foundation. He is recipient of Thane Gaurav, 2nd highest civilian honour by Municipal Corporation of Thane City. Prabhudesai is the Global Ambassador of Peace and Sustainable Development Goals. He was awarded the World Bank Prize for developing innovative solution for addressing youth unemployment. Vidyadhar was listed among EU-India 40 under 40 leaders and top 100 global influencers. He is a distinguished alumnus of Thunderbird School of Global Management and Aegis School of Business. Publications

< Back Dr Uma Purushothaman Uma Purushothaman is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and Politics at the School of Global Studies, Central University of Kerala, and was formerly a Research Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, and a Research Associate at the United Service Institution of India. She holds a PhD in International Studies at the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Besides authoring numerous book chapters, she edited the book, ‘Globalisation and Identity: Perspectives from India and Russia’ for ORF, New Delhi and co-authored, ‘Trends in Russia-China Relations: Implications for India’, also for ORF. With a focus on politics, foreign policy, and security, her research articles have been published in journals such as India Quarterly, International Studies, Journal of Peace Studies and Strategic Analysis. Publications COVID-19 Second Wave | Challenges to India’s global reputation: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/covid-19-second-wave-challenges-to-indias-global-reputation-6852231.html Israel-Palestine Conflict | The world reacts with predictable indifference: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/israel-palestine-conflict-the-world-reacts-with-predictable-indifference-6922401.html Why RIC is as important to India as JAI and BRICS: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/why-ric-is-as-important-to-india-as-jai-and-brics-46213/

< Back Dr Bhagya Senaratne Dr Bhagya Senaratne is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Global Asia at the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer (U.S. Associate Professor) in the Department of Strategic Studies, at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. Her research at the Center for Global Asia focuses on the BRI in South Asia. Her research and teaching intersects Foreign Policy Analysis, Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, Strategic Communications and Maritime Security. Dr Senaratne has served in several editorial boards such as the Journal of Defence & Policy Analysis and the Defence and Security Journal published of which she was the Editor-in-Chief in 2021. She co-edited Pakistan-Sri Lanka Relations: A Story of Friendship in 2017 and Sri Lanka’s Post-Independence Defence Policy: Past, Present and Future Projections in 2023. She has podcasts with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), USA and the Indo-Pacific Circle (IPC), New Delhi and writes to the Stimson Center’s South Asian Voices on Sri Lanka’s foreign policy. Publications Senaratne, B. (2024, May 10). Sri Lankan elections and an Indian Ocean tug-of-war. Daily FT. https://www.ft.lk/columns/Sri-Lankan-elections-and-an-Indian-Ocean-tug-of-war/4-761616 Senaratne, B. (2023). Sri Lanka’s Tightrope of Non-alignment, Economic Compulsions, and Diplomacy. In Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy (Ed.), US-China Competition: Perspectives from the Neighbourhood. ORF Special Report No. 218, December 2023, Observer Research Foundation. Senaratne, B. (2023). “U.S. relations with Sri Lanka: A Case of Impulsiveness, Missed Opportunities and Strategic Competition”. In O. Turner, W. Aslam, & N. Nymalm (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of US policy in the Indo-Pacific (pp. 300-314). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003018322-25

< Back Dr Benjamin Yew Hoong Loh Benjamin Yew Hoong Loh is a senior lecturer at the School of Media and Communication, Taylor’s University. He is a media scholar who employs digital ethnography in studying emergent cultures and the digital public sphere. Having received his doctorate in communications and new media from the National University of Singapore, he focuses on the confluence between technology and society, with a particular focus on minority and marginalised communities. He co-edited a book on the recent Sabah state elections, “Sabah from the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival” (ISEAS/SIRD 2021). His next book, a co-edited volume with James Chin entitled, “New Media in the Margins: Lived Realities and Experiences from the Malaysian Peripheries” (Palgrave 2023) will be published in early 2023. Publications

< Back Mr Abhijeet Kumar Abhijeet is a PhD researcher at the Queen Mary University of London, and a recipient of the Herchel Smith Fellowship, researching the issues related to the protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritages through intellectual property regime. He has done his B.A., LL.B. degree, with a Gold Medal and dual honours in Political Science and Intellectual Property Rights, from NLU Odisha (India), and his LLM degree, as the batch-topper, from NLU Jodhpur (India), with specialisation in Intellectual Property Rights. He has authored several research papers, book chapters and reviews, along with his first monograph titled ‘A Complete Guide to Valuation of IP Assets (With Discussions on Managing, Auditing and Taxing IPs)’, published by Thomson Reuters. He has professional experience of practising as an Advocate before Courts in India and is presently employed as an In-house Counsel for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, a ‘Maharatna’ Undertaking of Govt. of India. Publications

< Back Dr Ying Hooi Khoo Khoo Ying Hooi is the Head of, and Senior Lecturer at, the Department of International and Strategic Studies, University of Malaya. She completed her PhD in Politics and Government examining social movements and democratization with a focus on Malaysia's Bersih movement, from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests include civil society, social movements, human rights and democratization with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and ASEAN, especially Malaysia and Timor-Leste. Currently, a columnist in a local Chinese newspaper, Sin Chew Jit Poh, she is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Journal of International Relations (MJIR), and sits on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights and the Indonesian Law Review. Her most recent book is titled, "The Bersih Movement and Democratization in Malaysia", and published by ISEAS and Lexington Books. Publications Have Human Rights Failed? https://www.sinchew.com.my/?p=3108161 COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: much more than a health crisis https://theconversation.com/covid-19-in-southeast-asia-much-more-than-a-health-crisis-159451 What Will It Take to Admit Timor-Leste Into ASEAN? https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/what-will-it-take-to-admit-timor-leste-into-asean/

< Back Dr Anand V Dr Anand V is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education where he teaches subjects related to the theoretical and technological dimensions of geopolitics, among others, at the Masters level. He is also the Coordinator of the China Study Centre and the North East Studies Centre at the Department. He was briefly associated with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru and the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, where he conducted research on China’s space programme. He has published a monograph, several book chapters, research articles in peer reviewed journals as well as commentaries in various forums. He has also presented papers at numerous national and international conferences within and outside India. He has more than a decade of learning, teaching and research experience in the fields of geopolitics, international relations, China studies and strategic studies. Prior to that, he was as an engineer in the Defence production industry in the public sector. Publications Pervasive Geopolitics, Elusive Science: The Quest for the Origins of SARS CoV-2 https://www.idsa.in/cbwmagazine/pervasive-geopolitics-elusive-science Revisiting the Discourse on Strategic Culture: An Assessment of the Conceptual Debates https://www.idsa.in/strategicanalysis/44_3/revisiting-the-discourse-on-strategic-culture China’s silk road ambitions in outer space https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/chinas-silk-road-ambitions-outer-space/

< Back Ms Parul Bakshi Parul Bakshi holds a PhD from the Japanese Division of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has also been a Special Research Student at the Graduate School of Public Policy at The University of Tokyo as a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellow 2021-22. Her research is titled “Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Transition Towards Renewable Energy: Lessons from German Energiewende”. She has previously completed her MPhil, top of her class, from the aforementioned institute on the subject titled “Japan’s Path towards Renewable Energy: Scope for Japan-India Cooperation (2001-16)”. Parul has widely published in academic journals such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs, The Pacific Review, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, and the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, among others. She is also a recipient of the Mitsubishi Cooperation International Scholarship in recognition of excellence in the Japanese language. Publications