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Mahrukh Chaudhry is an Editorial Associate at India’s World, where she supports editorial and growth strategy, as well as external engagement. She previously worked as a Grants Consultant at the Peace Innovative Initiative in New York. Mahrukh holds an M.S. in Global Affairs with a specialisation in Peacebuilding and Analytics from New York University. She […]

Anil Wadhwa was a member of the India Foreign Service from 1979-2017 and has served as the Indian Ambassador to Italy, Thailand, Oman and Poland. As Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs of India, he oversaw relations with South East Asia, Gulf and West Asia, Pacific and Australasia. He has served as the […]

A.K. Ramakrishnan is currently the Nelson Mandela Chair Professor at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Earlier, he was Professor and Chairperson of the Centre for West Asian Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also had undertaken teaching and research assignments at various universities like Jamia Millia Islamia, New […]

Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously, he was the Professor of International Relations at York University, Toronto, and Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol, U.K. He was also a Fellow of Harvard University’s […]

Ausaf Sayeed (IFS, 1989) is a former Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs, a former Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and High Commissioner to Seychelles. He held numerous leadership positions throughout his illustrious career, contributing to India’s diplomatic, geopolitical, economic, cultural, and consular engagements worldwide. He served as […]

Nicolas Blarel is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University in The Netherlands. He studies India’s foreign and security policy-making, the politics of migration governance, the international politics of South Asia, and India’s relations with the Middle East. Nicolas has notably written The Evolution of India’s Israel Policy: Continuity, […]