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Dr Ajai Agarwal is General Manager Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana National Health Authority. He joined the Uttar Pradesh State Health Services in 1987. A renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Agarwal was applauded by the national media for being one of the first doctors to perform joint replacement surgery in a government hospital at an affordable cost

Ajay Bisaria is a Distinguished Fellow at ORF. He is also a strategic consultant and commentator on international affairs. He has had a distinguished diplomatic career spanning 35 years when he dealt with some of Indias key economic and security relationships. He served as Indian High Commissioner to Canadafrom 2020 to 2022. He was earlier Indias envoy in Pakistan (2017-2020) Poland and Lithuania (2015-2017). He has also represented the country at the World Bank in Washington DC and in embassies in Berlin and Moscow. He has served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs Department of Commerce and the Prime Ministers Office where he was a key aide to Prime Minister Vajpayee from 1999 to 2004. He has dealt extensively with Indias Eurasia policy including with Russia Ukraine and Central Asia.

He has published and lectured on issues related to trade, finance and geopolitics, with a focus on South Asia, Eurasia, Central Asia and Canada. He has lately written a series of op-eds on Pakistan in the Times of India. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University; an MBA (Finance and Marketing) from IIM Calcutta; and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. He has received distinguished alumnus awards from Modern School and IIM Calcutta. He speaks Russian, German and Urdu, apart from Hindi and English.

Ajay K Mehra is the Former Principal of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College Delhi University and former Atal Senior Fellow Nehru Memorial Museum and Library New Delhi (2019-21). His major publications include The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation (2017).

Ajay Singh is a Content Editor - Hindi at ORF Delhi. 

He focuses on ORF’s publications and research products in Hindi. Ajay is interested in issues pertaining to International Relations and Public Policy. 

Prior to his current role, Ajay served as a Research Assistant. Ajay has a Master in Political Science and Modern History from University of Rajasthan.

Ajay Tyagi specialises in the financial sector especially the capital markets. He has also worked extensively in the environment and energy sectors.

He served as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) from March 2017 to February 2022.  SEBI is a statutory Regulatory body with the mandate to protect the interest of investors in securities, and to regulate and promote the development of the securities market.

Before Joining SEBI, Ajay Tyagi had a career spanning almost 33 years in the Indian Administrative Service, where he held several senior positions in the Central and State Governments.

He served as an Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, handling diverse areas/subjects like Capital Markets, Investment, Infrastructure Financing, Financial Sector Reforms, Financial Stability Issues, FATF, and Coins & Currency.

Previously, he served as a Joint Secretary in the Ministries of Environment & Forests and Petroleum & Natural Gas. He was also Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board and Secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board.

He served as Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary in the Departments of Finance, Planning, Industries, and Information Technology in the Government of Himachal Pradesh.

Ajay Tyagi did his graduation in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and post-graduation in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has also done a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.

Ajey Lele is a Senior Fellow with the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA).

Ajish P. Joy, Senior Assistant News Editor, specialises in foreign affairs. He has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011). Ajish focuses on the US, Europe and the Middle East. His other areas of interest include the emerging politics of the Indo-Pacific and far right populism

Akanksha Jainis adoctoral researcher at South Asian University. Her research areasinclude industrial biotechnology waste and biomass valorisation bioenergy and bioproduct production and bioprocess engineering. She is alsointerested in science communication and science journalism.

Akanksha Khullar is a Visiting Fellow with the ORFs Strategic Studies Programme where her work focuses on the intersection of policy advice and academic research on gender security issues particularly in terms of understanding the Women Peace and Security agenda and identifying how women in different conflict contexts are being impacted: espousing for more women to be included in peace-making: and addressing the inter-linked issues of peace justice governance and security in South Asia.

Akanksha is also an Assistant Manager, Ministry of Women and Child Development Desk at Invest India where she oversees the designing of a gender data dashboard that communicates women and child specific data in a user-friendly digital format. Prior to this role, she has worked as the Country Coordinator for India at the Women's Regional Network and as a Researcher at the Centre for Internal and Regional Security with Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi.

In the past, Akanksha has authored various journal articles, book chapters, reports, and opinion pieces for several platforms globally. Some of her works have appeared in South China Morning Post, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Firstpost, The Toronto Star, The Diplomat, South Asian Voices, Deccan Herald, Asia Times, Modern Diplomacy, IPCS, and the Quint.

Akanksha Narain is an independent researcher based in London.

Akanksha Sharma is an International Development and Public Policy Specialist. She has been recognised as the 'Most Impactful CSR Leaders Globally' 'Asias Top Sustainability Leaders' Young CSR Leader 'Influential Sustainability Leaders' amongst others.Sharma carries over a decade's experience in leadership roles spread across four continents: ranging across the private sector the social sector and with UNICEF. She has worked extensively on international development issues such as poverty alleviation health education environment climate change gender issues post conflict development governance Sustainability ESG and Impact Investing and Blended Finance.Born in Jaipur Rajasthan Akanksha has Masters in International Development from the University of Sussex and a super specialisation from Harvard University. She has also served on several boards and policy committees.Currently she is the Global Head for Social Impact and Sustainability of a tech multi-national. Sharma is also a seasoned Columnist and writes for Forbes Times of India ET Dawn (Pakistan) Huffington Post and many others. For her Peace Series on Indo-Pak relations published in the Dawn she was recognised as a 'Peace Ambassador' of Postcards for Peace. She is a also 'Global Climate Force Ambassador' who represented India on an 'International Climate Change Expedition at Antarctica'. She is also World Economic Forum's Global Shaper and a speaker at TEDx Raisina Dialogues and other notable forums. She has also been a Sustainable Fashion model and has advocated for conscious living.

Akanksha Singh has done her BA. LLB(Hons.) from Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Diplomacy Law and Business from O.P. Jindal Global University.

Akarsh Bhutani is a Research Intern at the ORF.

Akhil Deo was Junior Fellow at ORF. His interests include urban governance sustainable development civil liberties cyber governance and the impact of future technologies on society.

Akhil Raina is a Marie S. Curie Fellow and PhD candidate at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (GGS) KU Leuven. He is an Indian lawyer interested in international economic law and policy: and his doctoral research focuses on compliance with World Trade Organization (WTO) decisions and mutually agreed solutions (MAS). He is a teaching assistant for Profs. Jan Wouters and Geert Van Calster: writes extensively: and is the coach of the team representing KU Leuven at the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition.

Akhilesh Sati is a Programme Manager working under ORFs Energy Initiative for more than fifteen years. With Statistics as academic background his core area of work is energy in numbers.

He provides and interprets data on energy, works for Energy Initiative’s flagship weekly publication ORF Energy News Monitor and involved in organisational work for the Energy Initiative.

Akhilesh Tilotia is currently Principal Strategic Initiatives and Policy Advisory at NIIFs Mumbai office. In this role Akhilesh is responsible for building research and a few strategic initiatives like Green Frontier aircraft leasing and urbanisation. He is also the author of two books: "The Making of India" (on India's macroeconomy) and "Through the Looking Glass" (on India's administration)

AKM Ahsan Ullah Associate Professor University of Brunei Darussalam

Akop Gabrielyan PhD is a researcher and graduate of Russian-Armenian University specialised in international relations and particularly the questions of international integration processes international institutions and non-governmental organisations.

Akshat Agarwal is Associate with Koan Advisory. His work focuses on internet and technology regulation.

Lt Col Akshat Upadhyay is a Research Fellow at MP-IDSA. He is a serving army officer who has written for a number of print publications such as Tribune The Hindu Hindustan Times and Sunday Guardian. He's the author of Coercive Diplomacy against Pakistan and has written a number of papers and articles for CLAWS USI Indian Military Review IDSA South Asia Security Trends and Pragati magazine.

Akshay Chettri is a member of Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group based in Pune and IUCN-WCPA. His work focuses on political ecology of conservation in India primarily on Protected Areas.

Akshay Joshi is working as Deputy Manager Chief Ministers Good Governance Associate Program at Ashoka University. He has completed Master's in Public Policy and Governance from Azim Premji University Bangalore.He has supported the Government of Haryana's Task Group IV- Housing for all.

Akshay was the Director of ORF Mumbai and Head of Geoeconomics Studies Programme at ORF.

Akshay Ranade was a Research Assistant at ORF.

Akshay Rout is a former Indian civil servant and international advisor in WASH.

Akshaya Paul Research Associate The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Akshobh Giridharadas was a Visiting Fellow based out of Washington DC. A journalist by profession Akshobh Giridharadas was based out of Singapore as a reporter and producer with Channel News Asia Singapore covering international business news. He writes on diverse topics such as geopolitics business tech and sports. His previous endeavours include working at ESPN STAR and FOX networks. He is a two time TEDx and Toastmasters public speaker and is a graduate from the Fletcher School of Law &: Diplomacy Tufts having specialised in international affairs.

Dr. Alan Bloomfield is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales Australia. He has recently published India and the Responsibility to Protect with Ashgate. His co-edited book Norm Antipreneurs and the Politics of Resistance to Global Normative Change will be published in October 2016 by Routledge. Alan tracks Indian and Australian foreign policy and global norm dynamics. He has published in leading IR journals including Review of International Studies Pacific Review and Contemporary Security Policy.

Dr. Aled Jones FRSA is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. The GSIs research is focused around personal motivations and systems change set against the challenges of sustainability. Dr Joness research is particularly interested in the finance sector and the impacts of global resource changes. Dr Jones chairs a working group on climate finance within the Capital Markets Climate Initiative on behalf of Greg Barker the Minister for Climate Change in the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and is a Managing Director for the P80 Group Foundation which in 2012 signed the Little Rock Accord with Club de Madrid to help facilitate global investments into climate change solutions. Dr Jones was previously the Deputy Director at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and was Director of the Chevening Economics of Climate Change Programme (for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office). He was a founding member of the ClimateWise insurance principles was facilitator for the P8 Pensions Group 12 of the worlds largest public pension funds working collaboratively to address the problem of climate change and investments and set up the Banking &: Environment Initiative.

Alejandra Cardini is Director of Education Programme at CIPPEC (Argentina) and Task Force Co-chair at the Think20.