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Siddhant Chatterjee is a Policy Consultant. He's previously worked with the British and Australian Governments and his interests lie in AI Ethics and Platform Governance.

Siddhant Kishore is a national security and foreign policy analyst. He focuses on strategic affairs pertaining to South Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Siddhant is the consulting editor on strategic affairs for The Honest Critique and the host of SIT a YouTube series.

Siddharth Goel Senior Policy Advisor International Institute for Sustainable Development

Siddharth Mallavarapu is Professor Department of International Relations and Governance Studies at Shiv Nadar University.

Siddharth Rathore teaches economics in University of Delhi.

Siddharth Sawhney is a Research and Media professional with extensive experience in the fields of research ethnographic filmmaking and development communication. He has a MA in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics and has worked with organisations such as UNICEF World Bank NDTV and Prasar Bharti.

Siddharth Sikchi is the Brand Manager at Exponent Energy.

Mr. Sivaraman serves as the Chief Business Officer of the Andhra Pradesh Aerospace Defence and Electronics Park. He has been a part of the CII defence team where he set up the Defence Advisory and Consultancy Services. He started in his career in the US in 1997 after finishing his Masters from the Prestigious School of Advance International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University. While in the US he worked on the business development of High Altitude Airship technologies with Lt. Gen James Alan Abrahamson. Currently Mr. Sivaraman is also Strategic Advisor at Kadet Defence Systems Kolkata which supplies aerial targets and unmanned systems to the Indian Military. He is passionate about the UAV sector and spends considerable time educating the government and the private sector on the benefits of UAV technologies in the coming future.

Siddharth Yadav is a PhD scholar with a background in history, literature and cultural studies. He acquired BA (Hons) and MA in History from the University of Delhi followed by an MA in Cultural Studies of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East from SOAS, University of London. Subsequently, he completed his doctoral research at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research focuses on the socio-cultural and philosophical implications of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and brain-computer interfaces.

Siddhi Joshi is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Sidhant Kumar is an advocate based in New Delhi. Heworks oncommercial and regulatory litigation. Sidhant is the co-author of Privacy Law: Principles Injunctions and Compensation one of the first detailed books on the subject in India.

Sidharth Raimedhi is a Fellow at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research New Delhi and holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also a Network for Advanced Studies on Pakistan (NASP) Fellow at the Takshashila Institution Bangalore.

Sikim Chakraborty was an Associate FellowData Sciences at ORF. His research interests are machine learning and information retrieval.

Silvana is an entrepreneur intellectual property expert and innovator strategist. She is the CEO &: Co-founder of The Blockchain Challenge Inc. a Boston-based startup with technology and methodology inspired at MIT and focused on building a Web 3.0 decentralized global marketplace of technical developers and enthusiasts. Silvana has over 15 years of global experience in business development innovation knowledge management and technology licensing for global clients. With a background in law Silvana holds an MBA degree and a Sustainability Certificate from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the recipient of the Womens Fort Foundation Scholarship (March 2015) and of the Deans Fellowship Award at MIT Sloan School of Management (May 2016).

Simantini Ghosh is an Assistant professor of Psychology at Ashoka University India. Her research interests lie at intersections of gender-based violence and discrimination and mental health as well as neuroscience and psychology of complex trauma.

Simi Mehta is the CEO and Editorial Director of the Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI). She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Ohio State University USA.

Simon Bennett teaches risk management at the University of Leicester, England.

Simon Hoiberg Olsen Senior Policy Researcher Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

She is the Founder and Chief Architect of the Blue Heritage Chamber of Commerce, leading sovereign innovation across Africa’s maritime, ceremonial, and defence ecosystems. Her frameworks operationalise ancestral intelligence into digital governance tools—spanning sustainability calculators, ceremonial scorecards, and strategic trade protocols. With experience advising African states on the maritime industry and the Blue Economy, she negotiates institutional partnerships grounded in ecological ethics and memory. Simone’s work fuses folklore with infrastructure, ritualising traditional armaments as living archives and sovereign interfaces. She anchors her tools—such as harmoniQ, Aquatica, and Tendai—in commercial logic, peer-reviewed research, and ceremonial stewardship. Her leadership translates complexity into clarity, scripting investor-facing narratives that demand legacy alignment and mutual risk. As Africa reclaims its strategic authorship, Simone builds technologies that remember, defend, and regenerate.

Simran Sodhi is a Delhi-based journalist and foreign affairs analyst. She holds a Masters in International Relations from the American University in Washington DC. In 2009 her book Piercing the Heart- Untold Stories of 26/11 was published. She has written for The Statesman Al Arabiya English Khaleej Times and is a regular analyst on All India Radio programmes on foreign affairs.

Simran Walia is a Research Analyst at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi and is pursuing a PhD in Japanese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has also completed her M.Phil in Japanese Studies from JNU. Her research interests include Japan’s politics, foreign policy, and overall Indo-Pacific dynamics.

Sinderpal Singh is a Senior Fellow and Assistant Director at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, and Coordinator of both the South Asia and Regional Security Architecture Programmes at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on South Asia’s international relations, Indian foreign policy, India–Southeast Asia ties, and the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of India in South Asia: Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP (Routledge, 2013) and editor of Modi and the World: (Re)Constructing Indian Foreign Policy (World Scientific, 2017). His work has appeared in Asia Policy, Asian Security, Pacific Affairs, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, an MA from Australian National University, and a BA from National University of Singapore.