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Aleksandra Morozkina PhD lives in Moscow Russia. She is a head of the Structural Reforms Division at the Economic Expert Group and an associate professor at the HSE. She has been working in the field of international organizations for several years and is very much interested in everything related to BRICS and development issues. Since 2012 Aleksandra has been involved in research projects of the National Committee on BRICS Research which performs and coordinates studies of the role and place of BRICS countries in global politics and economy. Her current research focuses on development finance in particular on the activities of the development banks. Prior to this Aleksandra worked in equity trading department of Troika Dialog.

Aleksei Zakharov is a Research Fellow at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences and previously was a Visiting Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF) New Delhi.

Alessandro Panaro Head of Maritime &: Energy Department SRM

Alex Brunner is an Mphil candidate at the University of Oxford.

Alex Hanafi is Director, Global Climate Cooperation, EDF.

Alexander Iskandaryan is Director of the Armenia-based Caucasus Institute.

Alexander Spalding was a Research Intern, at the Observer Research Foundation’s Cyber Initiative.

Alexandra Koval has a master degree in law of international trade. She has worked as a researcher in Russian Foreign Trade Academy (RFTA) under Ministry of economic development of Russian Federation and specialized in export support measures. Alexandra is now leading "Russia-OECD Club and works as the researcher in Russia-OECD Center. As an expert she has closed cooperation with government authorities like Government Ministry for Economic Development VEB.RF DOM.RF etc. Alexandra participates on an ongoing basis in the work of the OECDs committees and working groups. Export support SMEs tax responsible business conduct OECD tools are the main areas of her interests.

Alexandra Seymour is an Associate Fellow for the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS.

Alexei Kupriyanov is senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Alexey Kupriyanov PhD (History)

Dr Alexis Crow is Partner and Chief Economist of PwC US. A global economist who focuses on geopolitics and long-term investing, she works with the world’s leading companies and private investors to understand and navigate key macroeconomic dynamics impacting their business, strategy, and capital allocation decisions. In her remit, she covers Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. Dr Crow is a public speaker and frequent contributor to leading global financial publications and media outlets, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, BBC Arabic, France 24, CNN, and the Washington Post.

In addition to her role with PwC, Dr Crow is a Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School, and also with the Observer Research Foundation in India. She serves as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics, and she is a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. Dr. Crow is a reader at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. She also serves on the advisory board for Faith in Action in the World Economic Forum.

Prior to joining PwC, she taught at the London School of Economics; led a major policy research project at London UK-based think-tank Chatham House; and served as Managing Director at New York-based G2 Investment Group. Dr Crow holds a MA Hons First Class from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is the Founder and Director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), a Berlin-headquartered think-tank devoted to exploring transformations and promoting a foreign policy that reconciles interests and values. Among his publications are, most recently, The Islamic Republic in Existential Crisis: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in the EU’s Iran Policy (2023, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper), the much-acclaimed book Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani (2021, Palgrave), The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis (2020, Brookings), where he suggested the start of a long-term revolutionary process in Iran. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and was the winner of 2016/17 post-doctoral fellowship of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Iran Project. 

Ali Khan Mahmudabad is currently an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University (India) where he teaches political science and history. He obtained his PhD from the Univ of Cambridge and previously studied at the Univ of Damascus (Syria) and Amherst College (USA) He writes a column in Urdu for the Indian national daily Inqilab in India and has been writing columns and editorials for various English newspapers and magazines for a number of years. He is the author of Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950

Alicja Bachulska is works as a China analyst at the Asia Research Centre War Studies University in Warsaw Poland where she focuses in Chinese foreign policy and Beijings relations with Central and Eastern Europe. She is also a project coordinator for Poland at ChinfluenCE and a member of CHOICE (China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe) a network for monitoring and evaluating the rising influence of China in the region. Alicja is also a PhD candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR). She holds a M.A. in International Politics (Chinese Politics and Diplomacy) from Fudan University (Shanghai PRC) and a B.A. in Chinese and Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London.

Alja Pengov Bitenc is a Slovenian journalist political analyst and cohost of several podcasts on media and politics. He also authors Sleeping with Pengovsky a blog on Slovenian politics at pengovsky.com.

Almudena Azcrate Ortega is an Associate Researcher in the WMD Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Her research focuses on space security and missiles. Prior to joining UNIDIR Almudena was a Research Assistant at Georgetown University Law Center where she is currently an S.J.D. (Ph.D equivalent) candidate. She also holds an LL.M. in National Security Law from the same institution where she was the recipient of Georgetowns Thomas Bradbury Chetwood S.J. Prize for the most distinguished academic performance in the programme. Almudena received her LL.B. from the University of Navarra. She is admitted to practice law in Spain and prior to her studies at Georgetown she was a practising attorney at the Spanish law firm Ura Menndez where she specialized in international arbitration and litigation.

Alok Chaurasia is a former intern at ORF and is pursuing his Master's degree at SIS JNU.

Alok Kesari works as Senior Advisor at the Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH the German Agency for International Cooperation in the Global Project Quality Infrastructure commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. He specialises in market access conditions regulatory landscape including standards technical regulations and compliance procedures. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Faculty of Management Studies University of Delhi.

Alok Kushwaha Student Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

Alok Raj Gupta is an expert in the field of energy and sustainability economics and brings a rich global consulting experience from projects across the Americas EMEA and Asia including multi-lateral agencies (e.g. UNDP UNFCCC Water Aid Action Aid and DFID) governments departments (e.g. India Mexico United States Nepal and Australia) and energy majors (e.g. Saudi Aramco BP Vattenfall and Siemens). He has published over a 100 papers articles and essays and has conducted talks on a wide range of energy and sustainability issues. Alok was the Country Manager for Boston Strategies International (2011-2016) before founding Envecologic an energy &: sustainability think tank and capacity building firm in 2017. He holds a BA degree in Economics from University of Delhi and MS in Environment &: Resource Economics from TERI University.

Dr. Alvite Ningthoujam is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis School of International Studies (SSIS) Symbiosis International (Deemed University) Pune Maharashtra. Prior to this he served as Consultant (Strategic Affairs) at the National Security Council Secretariat Prime Ministers Office New Delhi. He holds PhD from the Centre for West Asian Studies School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. His research interests include Israels military exports Israeli foreign policy and its relations with the Southeast and East Asian countries Indo-Israeli relations Indias ties with the Middle Eastern countries and Sino-Middle Eastern cooperation.

Alyssa Ayres is a senior fellow for India Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She has served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia from 2010 to 2013. Her book about Indias rise on the world stage Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World was published by Oxford University Press in January 2018 and was recently selected by the Financial Times for its Summer 2018: Politics list.

Alyssa Leng is Research Associate Power and Diplomacy Programme at the Lowy Institute.

Amalia Ergasheva is an International Relations Specialist at IT Park Uzbekistan. She establishes and maintains relationships with national and international partners interested in innovative startups and the development of the IT sector in Uzbekistan

Aman Nair is a Research Associate and Project Coordinator of the Responsible Technology Initiative at DFL. His work primarily involves research into the intersection between technology governance and public service delivery. He also works on issues relating to the platform economy and judicial technology.Prior to working at DFL Aman was a researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society where he led the Financial and Commercial Tech agenda which focused on examining the relationship between technology and financialisation in India.

Aman Y. Thakker is an Analyst with Protagonist (formerly Monitor 360) a strategy consulting firm based in Washington D.C. He is also a Contributor for The Diplomat Magazine writing frequently about Indian foreign and national security policy. He is a graduate of the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and earned a B.A. magna cum laude in International Affairs. He also spent one year studying at the London School of Economics.

Amanda Roark works with the Institute of Applied Engineering University of South Florida. She is part of the graduate programme at SOFWERX where her teams research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence surveillance and cyber. She contributes to projects for the US Special Operations Command and also makes custom hardware for her experiments. Her work extends from cyber to welding to the RF spectrum.

Amarendra Bhattacharya Senior Fellow Centre for Sustainable Development Brookings Institute

Ambalika Guha is a former Senior Research Assistant at Observer Research FoundationKolkata. After graduating from Presidency College in History, she pursued her Master's Degree from the University of Calcutta. She specialises on public health, and reproductive health, in particular. She is a member of New Zealand Asia Society. Her recent publications include ‘BBIN: Less Euphoria, more realism’ (The Indian Economist, September 4, 2016); and ‘The ‘Masculine' Female: The Rise of Women Doctors in Colonial India’, c.1870-1940 (Social Scientist, Vol.44, Nos.5-6, May-June 2016, pp.49-64).

Ambar Khawaja is a Master’s student studying Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a background in international development across South Asia and Africa and her research focuses on South Asia - Middle East relations and the dynamics of humanitarian aid.

Ambar Kumar Ghosh is an Associate Fellow under the Political Reforms and Governance Initiative at ORF Kolkata. His primary areas of research interest include studying Indian democracy and its institutions federalism political leadership citizenship and migration studies.

He is presently pursuing his PhD on “Populist Politics and Indian Democracy” at the department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has previously served as a Guest Faculty at the department of Political Science, Siliguri College, Siliguri, West Bengal. He has presented academic papers in national and international workshops and conferences. His recent publications include “The COVID-19 Challenge to Indian Federalism” (co-authored), “Trans-border Migration: Bridging the Gap between State and Human Security” (co-authored) and “Paradox of ‘Centralised Federalism’: An Analysis of the Challenges to India’s Federal Design”.