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Kinga Brudziska is Head of Future of Europe Programme GLOBSEC Policy Institute based in Slovakia. Her main research interests lie in the fields of EU foreign policy and EU institutional architecture with a particular focus on relations among the Member States and the concept of differentiated European integration. Kinga is an author of the chapters in books articles in press (i.e. Fair Observer Es Global EurActiv Public Service Europe) and various analyses on the EU and the Latin America and Caribbean region. She is Alumna of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Global Governance Network

Kiran Bhatt 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. He has an MA degree in Geopolitics and International Relations from MAHE. His under graduation was in Economics (Honours) from Christ (deemed to be University). His research areas of focus have primarily been in Political Economy, International Financial Institutions, public health financing, economic warfare, and defence budgeting.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founder of Biocon is a pioneer of Indias biotech industry.

Kiran Sabnis Co-Founder &: Director 2Dot47 Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Kiran Yellupula has over two decades of leadership experience in managing strategic communications for IBM, Accenture, Visa, Infosys, JLL and Adfactors. He also has a rich, cross-sectoral editorial experience as an Executive Editor with the Indian Express, Strategic Newspapers and Jasubhai Media. With Post Graduations in English Literature, Linguistics, Digital Marketing, Strategic Management, Technology Policy and AI, he is an alumnus of Delhi University, IIM-Calcutta, IIT-Bombay, MICA, MIT Sloan, Oxford University, and Takshashila Institution.

Kirill Chernovol is a specialist in constitutional law with a qualification of a pre-doctoral researcher. He has a background of working in project offices of the Ministry of economic development and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and worked mainly in fields of regulation of delivering public services and of a state investment policy. His current areas of professional interest are government support of science technology and innovation and regulation of artificial intelligence.

Kirill Likhachev is an associate professor at School of international relations, St. Petersburg State University (SIR SPbSU). Among his main research interests are foreign policy of India, Indo-Russian, Indo-Chinese and Indo-American relations. Dr. Likhachev also specializes in South Asian regional security issues and the BRICS grouping. Dr. Likhachev is a board member of the Society for Cultural and Business Cooperation with India at the St. Petersburg Association for International Cooperation. In 2023 he became the academic supervisor of the 1 st Asian Dialogue Research programme, which was focused on the South Asian region and held by the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund in collaboration with SIR SPbSU.

Kirti Jain leads the research and knowledge-building initiatives in inclusive and equitable climate action at ClimateRISE team

Kishen Shastry is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Cambridge UK. He works on topics in institutional economics.

Koketso Tlhabanelo is a senior manager at AT Kearney a global consulting firm where she focuses on the public sector as well as the leadership and change practices. Koketso regularly works across markets and has delivered projects in Europe South America the Middle East and across Africa. Koketso is a fellow of the Young Africa Leadership Initiative Mbewu class (an ALI spinoff). Koketso holds a BCom degree in Informatics and a BCom from the University of Johannesburg. She also holds an MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility with Environmental Management from the University of York.

Kolluru Krishan is the Chairman of CVC India Infrastructure and CVC Biorefineries. He has founded several Clean Technology companies and his current focus is on advanced bio-technologies.

Komal Badodekar is Multimedia Lead (Hindi) at ORF.

Komal has been a Delhi-based journalist for the past six years. He started his career in digital journalism with Zee Media Group and later moved to Lokmat Hindi. He has also worked with UNICEF India (Kumbh 2019), MPEB, and at former Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan’s office.

Konstantinos is Senior Program Officer of the Circle the Med Forum, the par excellence environmental diplomacy forum in the Mediterranean, promoting Blue Economy, innovative maritime policies and interaction among oceans and seas. He served as international relations adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece and as Executive Director of Greek House Davos, the mission of Greece in the World Economic Forum. Konstantinos is co-founder of the regional cooperation platform Thessaloniki Regional Forum and Executive Director of South-East Europe BEYOND Ministerial Leadership Dialogue, which aims at the enhancement of economic, political and digital cooperation among countries of South-East Europe, the Mediterranean and the Global South. He is a Fellow of the Agora Strategy Institute and a member of the European Association of Political Consultants (EAPC). In 2018, he has been selected as an emerging young leader for the Obama Foundation Town Hall Europe program.

Koyel Kumar Mandal is Chief of Programmes at SSEF and responsible for managing all programme verticals such as power transport energy efficiency and climate policy.

Kris Hartley is Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Enterprise at Arizona State University, School of Sustainability. He researches the role of public policy in technology-enabled sustainability transitions, with a focus on circular economy and business models, global and multilateral policy frameworks for circularity, and state-society interface in the development and application of policy knowledge to scientific and technological issues. Kris holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy); Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley; Master of Business Administration from Baylor University (Texas); and Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa) in Classics from the University of Tennessee.

Krishna Vohra is a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Economy and Growth. His primary research areas include energy, technology, and the geopolitics of climate change. His work delves into the web of intricate interconnections between ecology and technology in an increasingly digitalised world. Grounded in the realities of systemic environmental inequity, his research further emphasises the uneven impacts of anthropogenic climate change, as well as disparities in access to climate tech and finance across geographies.

Krishnapriya Tamma is Assistant Professor School of Arts and Sciences Azim Premji University Bangalore.

Krishnapriya VS is a Doctoral Candidate at Centre for Development Studies (JNU), Trivandrum working on the growth and performance of startups in India. She has an M.A in Economics from IIT Madras and M.Phil in Applied Economics from Centre for Development Studies. She has published in an international peer-reviewed journal and has presented academic papers in national and international conferences. Her research interests include the economics of innovation, entrepreneurship and development.

Krisstina Rao has worked in healthcare and education to design grassroots program and advocate for responsive policy. She is an Amani Social Innovation fellow.

Dr Kristian Alexander is a Senior Fellow and Lead Researcher at the Rabdan Institute for Security & Defence Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is an adviser at Gulf States Analytics, a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy. He previously worked as a Senior Fellow at Trends Research & Advisory and before that as an Assistant Professor at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Kristian is a senior researcher at PRIO. His research interests lie at the intersection of cities, markets, politics, conflict and development in the Global South. He has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and using interdisciplinary approaches.

Krisztian Meszaros is Director for Partnerships and Global Affairs, NATO International Staff

Kriti Chhibber is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Kriti Kapur was a Junior Fellow with ORFs Health Initiative in the Sustainable Development programme. Her research focuses on issues pertaining to sustainable development with a special emphasis on health and education. Kriti shows a keen interest in data analysis and evidence-based policy-making. She tracks national and global efforts aimed at improving health outcomes in developing countries. She was also interested in studying policies and initiatives for fostering green growth and human capital development.

Kriti M. Shah was Associate Fellow with the Strategic Studies Programme at ORF. Her research primarily focusses on Afghanistan and Pakistan where she studies their domestic politics as well as their relationship with each other the Taliban the United States and the larger South Asian neighbourhood. Her other areas of interest include the role of technology in fighting terrorism in Kashmir and the ongoing Pashtun Tahafuz Movement and its dynamic and tumultuous relationship with the Pakistani state.Prior to joining ORF she worked as reporter for NDTV. She is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal Canada.

Kritika Banerjee is Senior Manager - Communications at Solidaridad Asia. Kritika leads communications and outreach activities for the region. A writer-editor for nearly 15 years with leading newsrooms in India, she is passionate about telling stories that capture the impact of climate on rural livelihoods as well as local solutions for adaptation and mitigation that can be scaled with policy support.

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Krupa Sriram Lead Women Empowerment Projects Sampark India

Krzysztof Iwanek is head of Asia Research Centre at the War Studies University Poland. He has taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Republic of Korea: and at the Collegium Civitas and Warsaw University Poland. Krzysztofs primary interests include Indian history and Indian contemporary politics particularly Hindu nationalism and conservatism.

Dr Krzysztof Marcin Zalewski (PhD) is President of the Board at Boym Institute a Warsaw based think tank. As a policy expert he writes about foreign policy and digital transformations in India and Australia. He previously worked at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna the Foreign Relations Office of the Chancellery of the President of Poland the Polish Parliament (Sejm) and at the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw. Views are personal.

Krzysztof Michalski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Political Science of the Marie Curie Skodowska University in Lublin. He also obtained an MBA in Innovation and Data Analysis from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University. He is a postgraduate of Warsaw University Faculty of Economic Sciences.He began his professional career in 2009 at an international trade company operating globally. Currently he is the deputy director at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. He is responsible for analyses and advice in economics innovation and international relations.

Kshipra Vasudeo is a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Centre for African Studies School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. She was awarded the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship for the year 2019-2021.

Kshitij Betjewargi is a Sub-Editor at the Observer Research Foundation.

Previously, he worked as a Sub-Editor at Deccan Herald, where he translated complex economic and political developments into clear, compelling news analyses. His coverage spanned elections, domestic politics, and major international affairs. He authored in-depth explainers, including A Deep Dive Into the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Money and Irony: China Is Now the Lender of Last Resort for Countries with Massive BRI Debts. He managed live blogs on key events such as the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi, and landmark Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality and electoral bonds. He also created interactive explainers using data visualisation tools to make complex economic and political trends accessible to readers. His multimedia work integrated infographics, video snippets, and social-first narratives to broaden audience engagement.

His primary research interest lies in examining the economic undercurrents of democratic backsliding. He is interested in studying how the dislocations and grievances engendered by the neoliberal economic order - including rising inequality, job insecurity, and the erosion of the welfare state - have created fertile ground for the global rise of right-wing populism. This line of inquiry focuses on how economic disenchantment translates into political volatility, illiberal governance, and the weakening of democratic institutions. He also maintains a strong interest in traditional security studies, particularly the dynamics of major power competition in an increasingly multipolar world.

Kshitij holds an MSc in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh. His postgraduate dissertation, “An Untamed Dragon? Explaining China’s ‘Uneconomic’ Belt and Road Push,” examined the financial sustainability of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Using econometric modelling and statistical analysis, he found that China’s overseas lending has shifted from infrastructure financing to bailout loans. His thesis argued that China is leveraging the BRI to challenge Western economic, political, and military hegemony, capitalising on the West’s retreat from development aid.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Christ University, Bengaluru, with a BA (Triple Majors) in Media, Economics, and Political Science. His undergraduate dissertation, “Structural Causes Behind State Failure in the Middle East,” explored the region’s persistent instability through the lens of country-specific structural political and economic factors.

Kuber Bathla a student studying Bachelor of Arts at St Stephen's College University of Delhi

Kuhu Agarwal is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Kumkum Mohata is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Kunal Singh is pursuing a PhD in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include the politics of nuclear weapons acquisition and strategy and South Asian security. Prior to this Kunal was a journalist with Hindustan Times in India. He is a trained engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.