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Shashank Reddy is Managing Partner at Evam Law & Policy, a boutique policy research and advisory firm in New Delhi, India. He has served on national and international regulatory panels, including the Ministry of Defence’s National Taskforce on AI, and the International Panel on Regulation of Autonomous Weapons.

Manoj Kewalramani is the Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Research Programme and a China Studies Research Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He is also a non-resident Senior Associate with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. He is the author of Smokeless War: China’s Quest for Geopolitical Dominance.

Ruchira Kamboj, a 1987 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, served as India’s first woman Permanent Representative to the United Nations and presided over the UN Security Council in December 2022. She was also India’s first woman Chief of Protocol and held ambassadorial postings in Bhutan, South Africa and UNESCO.

Santosh Pai is a cross-border lawyer based in New Delhi working at the intersection of law, policy and geopolitics. His topics of interest include economic security, comparative policy and cross-cultural negotiations. He is a Partner at Dentons Link Legal and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies.

Nitin Pai is the co-founder and director of the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy. His research focuses on the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, defence economics, and the politics of radically networked societies. A gold medalist from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, he previously worked for […]

Vinay Kaura is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs and Security Studies at Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Rajasthan, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.