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Ana Hajduka is a Founder &: CEO of Africa GreenCo which aims at developing an innovative new business model to help facilitate private investment in power projects in Africa via a public-private-partnership between African governments the private sector and international financial institutions.

Ana Paula Bortoletto Martins Professor Nutrition Department School of Public Health USP: Scientific Researcher Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health (NUPENS) USP: Associate Researcher Josu de Castro Chair USP

Anagh Chattopadhyay has completed his M.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata India and is currently a PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Maryland US.

Anahita Khanna was a Manager Media and Publications at ORF. She was responsible for the communications strategy of the organisations publications events and forums. She also oversees the website content short-form publications and events.

Anahita was a Junior Fellow with ORF’s Cyber Security and Internet Governance Initiative. She helps develop partnerships for the initiative, organises stakeholder discussions on cyber issues, and writes on cyber security and cyber policies. She is a coordinator of the annual ORF CyFy conference. She is also an Associate Editor of ORF’s monthly Cyber Monitor.

Dr Anamika has work experience of more than 13 years in pharmaceutical industries (Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.) and Knowledge Processing Industries in Healthcare (HEOR sector). In March 2020 Dr Anamika joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Studies in Science Policy School of Social Sciences. At JNU Dr Anamika is Convenor Institutes Innovation Council: and Coordinator National Innovation Startup Policy Ministry of Educations Innovation Cell.

Anamitra Anurag Danda is Senior Visiting Fellow with ORF’s Energy and Climate Change Programme. His research interests include: sustainability and stewardship, collective action and institution building, adaptation to climate change, and nature conservation.

Anamitra has worked in the areas of sustainability, sustainable development and nature conservation for over two decades. He has long implementation experience in the areas of energy access, climate change adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, education, community forestry, and nature conservation.

He has been a practitioner for nearly two and a half decades in the environment and development sectors. Bulk of his experience in nature conservation, the practice of sustainable development and adaptation to climate change was gained in the Sundarban region. He is the Director, Sundarbans Programme, WWF-India.

Anand is a strategist at ReNew Power India. His role involves evaluating new technologies in renewables operations technology transfer and due-diligence activities. Anand also serves as an executive assistant to ReNews CEO.Prior to ReNew Anand worked in the energy markets at ICF a management consultancy in Washington DC for three years. He worked on teams that advised US federal government clients on energy efficiency programmes. He received his bachelors degree in environmental economics from the University of Maryland College Park.

Anand Kumar Mishra Associate Professor Department of Social and Political Studies School of Behavioral and Social Sciences Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies.

Anand is a senior associate at The Asia Group.

Anand V. is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations in Manipal University Karnataka where he is conducting research on China's strategic culture. He is a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the University Grants Commission (UGC) Government of India. His other areas of research interest include China's strategic capabilities China's foreign policy and Sino-Indian relations.He has previously worked as an intern at the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore where he researched on China's satellite programme. He was also an outreach fellow of the Centre for Air Power Studies New Delhi where he researched on China's space capabilities.Anand has authored a monograph on China's space capabilities and has published his works in various edited books. His commentaries have appeared in various magazines online newspapers and websites including Asia Times Defence and Security Alert India-China Chronicle Science Technology and Security Forum and E-International Relations.

Anant Singh Mann holds aMaster of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master of Arts (Honours) in International Relations and Modern History from the University of St. Andrews Scotland. Anant has written extensively for a variety of media houses think tanks academic journals and book chapters on topics whichspan the global political economy international security studies and foreign policy.

Ananya Gaur is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation

Ananya Kalantri is an intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Ananya Koppikar Moorthy is a Research Intern, ORF

Ananya Saini Program Associate Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

Ananyashree Gupta was a Research Assistant with the Centre for Economy &: Growth Delhi.

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Senior Fellow with ORF’s Neighbourhood Initiative. She is the Editor, ORF Bangla. She specialises in regional and sub-regional cooperation in South Asia, energy politics, forced migration and women in conflict zones.

Anasua was the Visiting Fellow (2012) at The Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris , where she work on the subject “Logistics of Regional Integration in Europe and Question of Sovereignty.” As the recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Senior Media Fellowship (2007), Anasua produced a paper — Vernacular Dailies and the Ethnic and/or Religious Stereotypes in the Time of Violence. She received the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo in 1998-99. She is also the author of the paper — The Energy Crisis and Sub-regional Cooperation in South Asia — published by RCSS as Policy Studies 13. Anasua is also trained in Thematic Protection Learning Programme on Statelessness organized by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva.

Anasua was ICSSR Post Doctoral Fellow (2004-06) at the Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi

She is the editor of the online journal — IAAPS Perspective. Co- editor of a peer reviewed journal: Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR), published by IMPRI since 2020. She is a member in the Editorial Board of an international peer reviewed journals anmely: Borders in Globalisation Review published by Centre for Global Studies, Canada (since 2019); Journal for Indian Ocean research punlished by Routledge, New Delhi (Since 2020)

Her recent publications include: Caste and partition of Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees I 1946-1964 (Co-authored/ Oxford University Press: UK, 2022); India’s relations with neighbouring South and South East Asian countries: Perspectives on Look East to Act East (Springer Nature: Singapore, 2023): New futures of BIMSTEC: connectivity, commerce and security (co-edited/ Routledge: UK, 2021), Reimagining BIMSTEC: Strengthening regional solidarity across the Bay of Bengal region (Co-edited/ ORF: New Delhi, 2021); India– Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity (co-edited/ Routledge: UK, 2020); Connecting Nations: Politico-Cultural Mapping of India and South East Asia (co-edited/ Primus: New Delhi 2019); The State of Being Stateless in South Asia (co-edited, Orient Black Swan: 2015); Women in Indian Borderlands (co-edited/ Sage 2011); and SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (Samskriti: 2006).

Anasua is a regular contributor to peer reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines.

Anatoly Motkin is founder and President of StrategEast an US-based nonprofit promoting knowledge-based economies in Eurasia.

Anchal Vohra was a Fellow at ORF. She writes on contemporary developments in West Asia and on foreign policy.

Anchalee Kongrut is an editor and columnist with the Bangkok Post.

Anders Olofsgård, Deputy Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics; Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Andr-Michel Essoungou is an author a former journalist and currently a political advisor at the United Nations in New York. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent with the BBC World Service and Radio France International. Andr-Michel is the author of two books covering the politics of international justice in Africa and the western media discourse on African civil wars. He holds a masters degree in political science from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Andre Kwok is founder of the Future City Summit and Good City Foundation.

Andrea Deisenrieder is working as Research Associate at the Institute of Development Strategy in Munich where she has been involved in various consulting projects and evaluation of complex regional and global development interventions.

Andrea M. Bassi is Founder and CEO KnowlEdge Srl (Italy) and a Senior Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Switzerland). His research focuses on green economy and green growth using Systems Thinking and System Dynamics as underlying methods to inform policy making at national and sub-national level.

Dr. Andreas Kuehn is a senior fellow at ORF Americas Cyber Cooperation Initiative.

Andreas Østhagen is a Senior Researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and an Associate Professor at High North Center at Nord University Business School. He is also affiliated with The Arctic Institute, the Wilson Center, and Oslo New University College. His work focuses on geopolitics, security and ocean governance and resource management in the Arctic and beyond. Østhagen is the author of Norway’s Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity (2023), Ocean Geopolitics (2022) and Coast Guards and Ocean Politics in the Arctic (2020). He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of British Columbia, a MSc From London School of Economics, and is a Fulbright alumni with research visits at the Belfer Center, Harvard University, and at the Wilson Center.

Andrew Ruolngul is an Associate Fellow with Mr. N.K. Singh, Chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a non-resident senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He also holds a visiting fellowship at the Australian National Universitys National Security College. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations EU-China relations and broader developments in Chinese foreign and economic policy.

Andrey Bystritskiy is the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

Andrey Ignatyev Head of Analytics Center for Global IT Cooperation Moscow

Andrey Sushentsov is Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club. He is also Director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University Russia.

Aneesh Parnerkar is a Research intern with the Observer Research Foundation.

Angad Singh Brar was a Research Assistant at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His research focuses on issues of global governance, multilateralism, India’s engagement of International Organisations and Institutional reform.

Angad completed his MPhil in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. His dissertation focused on India’s diplomatic strategies to reform the UN Security Council. He received the University Gold Medal for both his undergraduate and graduate studies in Sociology from Panjab University in India. He has also worked for The Indian Express as a journalist.