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Sanjay Pulipaka is currently the Chairperson of the Politeia Research Foundation. He was previously associated with the Delhi Policy Group, the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, and CRIER. He was a Pavate Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK and a former Fulbright Fellow in the Conflict Transformation Programme in the United States. Sanjay’s areas of interest include India’s South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and India’s foreign policy. He has worked on diverse themes such as Geopolitics, Peacebuilding, Ethnic Conflicts, Conflict and Economy, Democracy, Decentralisation, Federalism, Political Transitions, Connectivity Projects, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Defence Cooperation and other related domains. Further, he has been closely following the political transition in Myanmar and has conducted field research in that country and in Northeast India. Sanjay also has extensive work experience with think-tanks and civil society organisations in India. He has considerable work experience in strengthening participatory political processes, governance frameworks and platforms for wider consultation. He has a substantive publication record, including books, policy reports, numerous research papers, and Op-Ed essays.

Sanjay Seth Senior Director Sustainable Infrastructure Programme The Energy &: Resources Institute (TERI)

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Sanjay Srivastava is Chief Disaster Risk Reduction ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division ESCAP

Sanjeet Kashyap is a PhD candidate in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also interned with the Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation.

Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia has core skills in institutional analysis, energy and economic regulation and public financial management backed by eight years of project management experience (2005 to 2013) in governance and policy support with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) practice of the World Bank in Africa. Subsequently, he worked as a consultant for World Bank governance projects in India and most recently in electricity reform in Myanmar and Energy Transition in India.

He was the founder Secretary of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Government of India, in 1999. During three years of consultancy with TERI he provided technical assistance to the newly corporatized utility GRIDCO to submit its first Tariff Application to the Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission under the World Bank and DFID assisted Orissa Electricity Reform Project.

In the Government of India, he was in the Ministry of Disinvestment, Department of Economic Affairs and in the Ministry of Commerce. He has ten years of experience in industrial and rural development, district, and municipal administration, and was Secretary, Finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which was his home cadre in the Indian Administrative Service.

He has a master’s in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York; a post graduate diploma in financial management from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, and a master’s in history from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

He is affiliated with the Observer Research Foundation as an Advisor since 2014.

He hosts a Blog - https://ahlu-india.com/

Select Publications

"From Lattus to Lasers" Realising India's Electricity Potential" 2022. TERI Alumini Association & Shakti Foundation, New Delhi.

“Co-authored “Sustainable Urban Networks for Dynamic and Resilient (SUNDAR) India”. 2022. RTI International

“Valuing our common future” September 30,2022 orfonline.org

“Glasgow 2021 – Reward aggressive carbon mitigation” Asian Age, August 24, 2021.

Sanjeev Gupta Senior Policy Fellow Center for Global Development

Sanjith Srikanth is a Project Manager at ORF within the Performance, Appraisal and Management Team.

Before joining ORF, he worked for a US-based risk and diligence company, where he conducted investigative due diligence research and provided technology-enabled compliance solutions for governments and multinational corporations. He subsequently worked as a consultant for a Big-4 company within the regulatory compliance team. He has a combined major in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Sanjiv Krishan Sood retired as Additional Director General Border Security Forces BSF.

Sankalp Gurjar is an Assistant Professor at the Department ofGeopolitics and International Relations Manipal Academy of Higher Education Udupi India. He works on International Relations of the Indo-Pacific Great Power Politics and the Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region and is the author ofThe Superpowers Playground: Djibouti and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in the 21st Century(Routledge: 2023).

Sanket Sudhir Kulkarni was Fellow at ORF's Mumbai Centre. Sanket's primary area of interest is studying geopolitics of energy trade. Also, Sanket closely monitors patterns of insurgency and terrorism in South Asian countries.

Prior to his joining ORF’s Mumbai Centre, Sanket has worked as a Consultant in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi in the Non-Traditional Security Centre. Sanket has travelled extensively across Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar to conduct risk assessment of proposed energy infrastructures and trading in these countries. He has presented his research findings in several national and international conferences. He has published his research in reputed, peer-reviewed, international journals and contributes regularly to oped columns in newspapers and websites. He has also appeared as a subject expert to discuss issues pertaining to international affairs on Marathi news channels.

Sanket has also submitted his PhD thesis at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. Sanket holds a Master’s degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from Bhonsala Military College, Nasik.

Saon Banerjee is Professor AICRP on Agrometeorology Directorate of Research Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) Mohanpur Nadia West Bengal.

Saon Ray is a Professor Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations New Delhi

Sara Roversi is the Founder of the Future Food Institute and Director of the Executive Master Program in Food Innovation and Regeneration at Bologna Business School.

Sarah Box was a Visiting Fellow at ORF America. She is the 2024 New Zealand Harkness Fellow. With the support of this award and with hosting from ORF America, she is spending three months in the United States researching a project on AI Governance – Exploring strategic alignment for a small country.

Sarah C. Schoeffel is a recent graduate of American Universitys International Affairs masters degree program in Washington D.C.

Sarah Harper Manager Climate Policy and Partnerships Energetic Insurance

Sarah Hasan was a Junior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation.

Sarah Sawhney is a Programme Coordinator - Forums at ORF. She is a strong communicator with a focused interest in global issues, particularly in the Middle East. Sarah Sawhney authored the insightful paper titled "ICC warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders: Challenges ahead," exploring the complexities of international justice. Alongside her exceptional verbal and written communication abilities, she has effectively managed multiple large forums and exhibits excellent interpersonal skills, adept at engaging and influencing diverse international audiences.

Sarah Teo is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Regional Security Architecture Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She is the author of Middle Powers in Asia Pacific Multilateralism: A Differential Framework (Bristol University Press 2023).

Saranya Sircar is a Consultant for the East Asia Research Programme at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) New Delhi.

Saranya was a Research Assistant with the Centre for Security Strategy and Technology (CSST). Her research interests are domestic politics of China Sino-Indian ties Sino-US relations and Indo-Pacific. She writes a weekly blog on China &: Tech for CSST.

Sarayu Natarajan is co-founder of Aapti Institute. Sarayu is a political scientist by training. She co-hosts the podcast Ganatantra.

Saroj Kumar Aryal is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His areas of expertise include South Asian geopolitics, India's foreign policy, Nepal's foreign policy, and small states in international relations and regional security complexes.

Sarral Sharma is a Doctoral Candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He has previously served in the National Security Council Secretariat. He was a South Asian Voices Visiting Fellow (2019-2020) at The Stimson Center Washington D.C. and was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Internal and Regional Security (IReS) Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) New Delhi.

Sarthak Guha was the Executive Assistant to the President at ORF. In this role, he supports institutional leadership through programme coordination, internal review processes, and strategic management functions that cut across ORF’s research and operational verticals.

His work involves assisting senior leadership on programme appraisal, organizational planning, and cross-team coordination, with a focus on strengthening internal systems, workflows, and policy-facing outputs. He brings an applied understanding of public policy, governance processes, and stakeholder management, with experience spanning research support, programme execution, and institutional operations.

Prior to joining ORF, Sarthak has worked across government systems, civil society organisations, and research institutions on urban governance, public health, sustainability, and solid waste management. His experience includes programme implementation and policy research with Hasiru Dala on waste picker livelihoods and circular economy frameworks, sustainability and ESG research with the Centre for Responsible Business, and public-sector engagement with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal, supporting large-scale COVID response and community-level programme delivery. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the National Law School of India University and a Master’s degree in Sociology from Jadavpur University.

Sarthak Shukla is an Independent public policy consultant working on issues around sustainability inclusive economy and resilience

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Sasha Ranjan is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Professor, FP, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

Satang Nabaneh is a doctoral candidate and works as a project officer of the Womens Rights Unit Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria. Satang holds Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (University of Pretoria) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of The Gambia.As a feminist human rights (socio)legal researcher and activist her publications and advocacy pieces span human rights in Africa comparative constitutionalism politics democracy and rule of law.

Lt. General Satish Dua is a former Corps Commander in Kashmir who retired as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff.

Satish Misra was Senior Fellow at ORF. He has been a journalist for many years. He has a PhD in International Affairs from Humboldt University Berlin and MA in Western History from Lucknow University.

Satish Rai is a practising lawyer and is currently a partner at Kapoor &: Co. a boutique law firm based in New Delhi and with operations across India. He has previously worked with Khaitan and Co. New Delhi and is an alumnus of ILS Law College Pune. Other than his areas of practice he has interest in the subjects of constitutional law and human rights. A firm believer of research in the profession his work includes legal assistance and advocacy of the rights of citizens.

Satish Tezaa serves as a Data Analyst with ORF's Strategic Studies Programme, where he focuses on research tracking, event management, and creation and management of databases. His research interests reflect a commitment to providing expert data assistance across diverse domains. He has past experience of over a decade with the public health sector, with a focus on counseling and budgeting.

Dr. Satoru Nagao was a Visiting Fellow at ORF. Dr. Nagao’s primary research area is India-U.S-.Japan security cooperation. 

Dr. Nagao holds numerous other research positions, including Fellow (non-Resident) at Hudson Institute. He was awarded his Ph.D. by Gakushuin University in 2011 for his thesis, “India’s Military Strategy,” the first such research thesis on this topic in Japan. Gakushuin University is a premier institution from which members of the Japanese Imperial Family have also graduated. Dr. Nagao has authored numerous books and articles on security issues, and he also contributes to the column, “Age of Japan-India ‘Alliance’” at Nikkei Business, the journal of one of Japan’s leading newspapers.

Satpal Singh is a Research Officer at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) New Delhi. From 2007 to 2009 he worked as Senior Executive in the Urban Unit of the Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) where he was responsible for providing research guidelines in municipal finance and urban governance. He is Managing Director of the journal Urban India.

Satu Limaye is a Vice President and Director East West Center USA

Satyajit Sen is a policy adviser at the Federation of Prince Edward Island Municipalities Canada and a researcher on islands oceans environment and local governance. He holds degrees in Law and Island Studies. With a particular focus on Sustainable Island Communities Island Public Policy and International Relations he has experience conducting research advocacy and government relations and providing strategic advisory on legislative regulatory policy and governance issues in Prince Edward Island and its local governments.

Satyam Singh is a Research Intern under the Strategic Studies Programme at ORF, New Delhi. He studies China’s foreign policy, particularly in relation to India.

In 2023, Satyam graduated with a MSc International Relations degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Satyam also has a degree in MA Political Science from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.