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Navigating the Global Transition to Sustainable Maritime Fuels
Maritime Security | Maritime Infrastructure | Maritime Governance Architecture May 21, 2026

Navigating the Global Transition to Sustainable Maritime Fuels

World Oceans Day is an opportunity to highlight the interconnection between marine conservation and the maritime industry, acknowledging that global trade depends entirely on a healthy, thriving ocean ...

Rethinking India-Africa Solidarity in an Era of Disrupted Global Order
International Affairs May 21, 2026

Rethinking India-Africa Solidarity in an Era of Disrupted Global Order

In an era of geopolitical disruption, India and Africa can leverage shared histories and complementary strengths to reimagine global governance ...

Selective Cooperation, Enduring Rivalry: Reading the Trump-Xi Summit
International Affairs | Great Power Dynamics May 21, 2026

Selective Cooperation, Enduring Rivalry: Reading the Trump-Xi Summit

The Trump–Xi summit showed that limited economic cooperation persists, but strategic rivalry continues to define US–China ties ...

The Africa Forward Moment: A Reset in France–Africa Relations
International Affairs May 21, 2026

The Africa Forward Moment: A Reset in France–Africa Relations

The Africa Forward summit in Nairobi signals a decisive shift in France–Africa relations—from military engagement to trade and investment-oriented partnership amid changing dynamics in the Sahel and beyond ...

Creating an India–Africa People-to-People Partnership for the Next Decade
International Affairs May 20, 2026

Creating an India–Africa People-to-People Partnership for the Next Decade

As India and Africa approach the fourth India–Africa Forum Summit, the next decade calls for a shift from capacity building to co-created, innovation-led people-to-people partnership ...

BRICS in a Fractured Order: What the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Revealed
International Affairs | Multilateralism May 20, 2026

BRICS in a Fractured Order: What the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Revealed

The BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting underscored the grouping’s preference for pragmatic engagement, institutional reform, and issue-based cooperation, even when geopolitical fault lines prevent full consensus ...

Beyond Buildings: Staffing India’s Expanding AIIMS Network
Healthcare May 20, 2026

Beyond Buildings: Staffing India’s Expanding AIIMS Network

India has expanded the AIIMS network across underserved regions, but its next phase must focus on attracting and retaining the faculty who make tertiary care work ...

Operationalising the East: India’s Naval Engagement with Myanmar
Neighbourhood May 20, 2026

Operationalising the East: India’s Naval Engagement with Myanmar

India is using sustained naval engagement with Myanmar to strengthen its maritime position in the increasingly contested Bay of Bengal ...

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Ingrid Irigoyen

Ingrid Irigoyen

Ingrid Irigoyen is the Senior Director, Market Innovation, for the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP), where she leads EEP’s work designing and implementing new approaches to catalyse, strengthen, and scale markets for sustainable and low-carbon supply chain alternatives. ...

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Kayode Fayemi

Dr John Kayode Fayemi is the former Governor of Ekiti State. ...

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