Dr. Sriparna Pathak is an Associate Professor and the founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University, (JGU) Haryana, India. She also serves in the capacity of the Associate Director of the Jindal India Institute. She teaches courses on Foreign Policy of China as well as Theories of International Relations. In 2022, she published a book titled ‘Drifts and Dynamics: Russia’s Ukraine War and Northeast Asia. Her previous work experience covers Universities like Gauhati University, Don Bosco University; the Ministry of External Affairs, where she worked as a Consultant for the Policy Planning and Research Division, working on China’s domestic and foreign polices; think tanks like Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi and Kolkata respectively, South Asia Democratic Forum in Brussels where she is a Research Fellow and the Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research in New Delhi where she worked as a researcher. She is also associated with Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, as a regional partner, and works on tracking China’s influence operations.
Awarded a Doctorate degree from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 2015, Dr. Pathak is fluent in English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Bengali and Assamese. She has been a resource person for various media organisations, colleges, Universities and think tanks within India and abroad.