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Vice Admiral Anil Chopra (retd) has been the Commander-in-Chief of both the Western Naval Command and the Eastern Naval Command: as well as being the Chief of the Indian Coast Guard for three years in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He has also been a Member of the National Security Advisory Board and of the Defence Acquisition Council.

Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (Retd) is Additional Director General Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) New Delhi.

Anil Sigdel is Director at Nepal Matters for America in Washington DC. Sigdel's research interests include South Asian affairs Indo-Pacific and China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Animesh Jain is a Policy Fellow with the Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India - Policy Analytics and Insights Unit. He has completed his master's in international security with concentrations in China &: East Asia and Diplomacy from Sciences Po Paris. He has previously worked with organizations including MKAI Kubernein Initiative Tianjin Intertech Corporation AI Policy Labs National Skill Development Corporation and Observers Research Foundation in different capacities.

Anindita Mukherjee works in the Founders’ Office at Newtrace.

Anindita Pujari is Advocate-on-Record The Supreme Court of India &: Hony. General Secretary The Bar Association of India.

Anindya Bhattacharya PhD. Executive Director The Celestial Earth India

Anirban Paul obtained his MPA in International Affairs from Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include Eurasia nuclear relations energy and China.

Anirban Sarma is Director of the Digital Societies Initiative at Observer Research Foundation (ORF). He is presently a Lead Co-Chair of the Think20 Brazil Task Force on ‘Inclusive Digital Transformation’, and was previously a Chair of the T20 India Task Force on ‘Our Common Digital Future’. 

Anirban’s research explores the use of technology for development, with a focus on areas including the digital economy, digital public infrastructure, AI, data governance, platform governance, and the future of work. He has also written on issues around online safety, healthtech, cleantech, and women’s digital empowerment and inclusion. 

Anirban was the Chief International Outreach and Communications Officer at the National Digital Library of India, a project of the Ministry of Education. He earlier served at UNESCO for over eight years, designing and managing UNESCO’s initiatives on ICTs, access to information, and media development across South Asia. In 2007, Anirban was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship to pursue a second master’s degree in media and communications at the London School of Economics, from where he graduated with a Distinction. He was earlier a double gold medallist at Jadavpur University in Kolkata.

Aniruddh Mohan is a climate and energy policy researcher currently based at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate Environment &: Energy through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations International Climate Protection Fellowship. He is also a Research Associate with Tandem Research. His work focuses on the future of energy systems global climate politics and the social dimensions of technological change.

Aniruddha Inamdar is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Diplomacy, Department of Global Health Governance, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India. He is a recipient of the ERASMUS+ scholarship during his postgraduation in European Studies from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. He has a Bachelors in Economics (Honours) from Christ (deemed to be University). His research areas of focus have primarily been in education public policy political science public health and development studies.

Aniruddha Sharma is a management professional with a keen interest in the geopolitics of business.

Anirudh Prem is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Diplomacy, Department of Global Health Governance, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India. He is a Post-Graduate in Geopolitics and International Relations from MAHE. His research interests have primarily been Foreign policy, Counter Terrorism, Non - traditional security, and health diplomacy.

Anirudh is the Founder and Managing Partner at Ikigai Law - an award-winning law and public policy firm. An author and Ted speaker, Anirudh was named as Achiever of the Year by BusinessWorld magazine in 2019, Managing Partner of the Year by Idex Legal in 2020 and ranked among leading 50 TMT lawyers in Asia by Asian Legal Business in 2024. In the past, he was a visiting faculty at IIM-Indore and a mentor at the GoodFashion Institute, a global NGO where he mentored startups working on sustainable fashion. He is a Harvard alum and writes and speaks frequently on issues relating to sustainability.

Anisha Agarwal is an Analyst at Sattva Consulting.

Anisree Suresh Associate Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) Kochi

Anita Prakash is Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the President at ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), Jakarta, Indonesia.

Dr Anita Sengupta is currently Director, Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata. She has been Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi and Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. She is an area studies specialist engaged with the study of the Eurasian region. Her areas of interest include issues of identity politics, migration, gender, borders, critical geopolitics and logistics.

Anita Yadav PhD Scholar TERI School of Advanced Studies New Delhi

Anjal Prakash Research Director and Adjunct Associate Professor Bharti Institute of Public Policy Indian School of Business Hyderabad India

Anjali Birla is an Indian Civil Services Officer(Batch 2020) working in the Ministry of Railways and has done her graduation in Political Science from Delhi University. She has an interest in International Relations particularly in Indias relations with its neighbours. She also runs two NGOs in the domain of women's empowerment &: environment.

Anjali Nayyar is Executive Vice President Global Health Strategies

Anjjali Shrivastav is a Research Intern with the Strategic Studies Programme at the Observer Research Foundation

Ankai Xu is a research economist at the World Trade Organization. In this capacity she conducts economic analyses to inform policymakers on issues related to digital economy and sustainable development. Ankai holds a PhD and a masters degree in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in International and Development Studies in Geneva Switzerland and a bachelors degree from Fudan University Shanghai China.

Ankit K is New Delhi-based analyst who specialises in the intersection of Warfare and Strategy. He has formerly worked with a Ministry of Home Affairs institute. Prior to that, he served at a military Think Tank and at the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. He is currently a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) fellow for 2023-24 and currently studies at the South Asian University.

Ankit Kataria Associate Manager National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies Quality Council of India

Ankit Kumar is presently doctoral scholar at the Department of Security Studies, School of National Security Studies at Central University of Gujarat. He is a recipient of UGC’s NET-JRF fellowship and was awarded Government of Japan’s ‘Monbukagakusho’ Research Fellowship. He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi. He has published research papers in various journals on issues relating to defence and security affairs.

Ankit Mittal is the CEO and Founder of Sheru

Ankita Dutta was a Fellow with ORFs Strategic Studies Programme. Her research interests include European affairs and politics European Union and affairs Indian foreign policy and Europe. Dr Dutta has done her Ph.D in European Studies from Centre for European Studies School of International Relations Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

Ankita K is the Head of Programmes at Urja Trust.

Ankita Nair is currently a Research Assistant under Mr. N.K. Singh. She is working in the direction of their upcoming book “Responsible Growth: Revisiting Old Debates”. Her areas of research include the budget, IMF data, RBI data, etc.

She is interested in political economy, diplomacy and Indian History. She is passionate about doing social service and bringing revolution one day to benefit a mass population.

Ankita is pursuing Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has completed her B.A. Economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.

Ankitha Brijesh is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Ankur Rawal Programme Associate CEEW

Dr Anna-Maria Osula is a senior policy officer at Guardtime a software security company that offers solutions for data governance and real-time detection and mitigation of cyberattacks based on blockchain technologies. She also works as senior researcher at Tallinn University of Technology. Previously she served as a legal researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence where her research areas included national cyber security strategies international organisations international criminal cooperation and law. During 2013-2015 she was the lead for the NATO CCD COE Cyber Norms project and the co-editor of the book 'International Cyber Norms: Legal Policy and Industry Perspectives'. She is the founder of the annual ICR workshop in Tallinn Estonia. Anna-Maria has an LLM degree in IT law from Stockholm University and obtained her PhD in law from the University of Tartu.

Annapurna Mitra was Fellow at ORF. She led the Green Transitions Initiative at ORFs Centre for New Economic Diplomacy.

Anne Jenkins Enterprise Co-ordinator Womens Economic Imperative the UK