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Akarsh Bhutani is a Research Intern at the ORF.

Akarsh Srivastava is an intern at the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation.

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.

Akram Zaoui is Chargé de Mission to the Executive President, Policy Center for the New South.

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

Akshat Singh is a Research Intern with the Strategic Studies Programme at the Observer Research Foundation.

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 a Public Policy Practitioner.

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.

Akshay Shetty leads the collaborative-building efforts on climate action at ClimateRISE

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.

Alankrita Dutta is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Dr Albert Chiang is an Officer on Special Duty at Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA), Govt of Meghalaya with primary association to the Meghalaya Climate Change Centre. Albert is on deputation from the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, where he is a Scientist in Restoration Ecology.

Albert received his PhD from Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR). He conducted his postdoctoral studies at NCBS-TIFR Bangalore and University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, through an Early Career Fellowship of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance.

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.

Aleksandra Jaskólska, PhD, University of Warsaw, Poland. She works on India’s foreign policy and international relations in the Indo-Pacific.

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 Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. His research focuses on the geopolitics and geo-economics of Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, with particular emphasis on Russia’s foreign policy towards South Asia and India-Russia relations.

Previously, Aleksei was a Post-doctoral Fellow at HSE University, Moscow, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also was a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Gateway House, the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), and the French Institute of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8.

Alessandro Arduino is an affiliate lecturer at the Lau China Institute of King's College London.

Alessandro Meneghella holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He currently works at Disal Consulting, where he focuses on strategic planning and socio-economic impact assessment for governments, international organisations, and large corporations.

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 A. Dynkin, President, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

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

Alexander Sergunin is Professor of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University.

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.