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Jan Hornat is the Head of the Department of North American Studies at Charles University in Prague. In his research he focuses mainly on transatlantic relations and the perceptions of democracy in the US and the EU. He has published in academic journals such as Communist and Post-Communist Studies Cambridge Review of International Affairs Global Affairs and The National Interest and monographs with Routledge Palgrave Macmillan and Charles Univeristy Press. He is also researcher within the Peace Research Center Prague and a member of the "VirusImpact" team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic which examines the geopolitical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past he was Head of Unit at the Department of European Programs of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.

Jan-Peter Kleinhans is director of technology and geopolitics at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin and the author of the report Whom to trust in a 5G world?

Visiting Fellow Institute for International Trade University of Adelaide and Founder Australian Services Roundtable Jane Drake-Brockman is a widely published international economics and regional integration expert and Australias foremost industry expert on digital trade. She co-chairs the Asia Pacific Services Coalition and contributes to the G20-Trade and Investment Research Network (G20-TIRN). A former senior Australian diplomat Jane has served also with the International Trade Centre OECD Trade Directorate and Commonwealth Secretariat.

Jatin Gora has researched the political economy of the power sector in Himachal Pradesh, examining the implementation of World Bank-led reforms and the sector’s evolution in the hill state. His broader research interests include industrial policy, particularly the development of India’s automobile industry, and critical mineral supply chains, with a focus on their geopolitical and geo-economic dimensions. He is currently a researcher with The Indian Foreign Policy Project (China Observatory Desk). Jatin holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi, and is an alumnus of Sainik School, Nagrota (J&K).

Jayanta Bandyopadhyay is a Visiting Distinguished Fellow. He is a researcher and author on science and the natural environment. He received his Ph. D. in engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975. He then joined the Centre for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, as a visiting post-doctoral fellow. He joined the Faculty of IIM Bangalore in 1978 and started to work on public interest knowledge. In 1979 he got deeply involved in understanding the reasons behind the forest rights movement in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, widely known as theChipko Andolan.

In 1988 he left IIM Bangalore and joined the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu where he continued to work on environment and development in the Himalaya. In 1993 he joined the International Academy of Environment in Geneva as Director of Research. In 1997 he was invited by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to join the Centre for Development and Environment Policy. He retired as Professor from IIM Calcutta in 2012.

He has been a Coordinating Lead Author for the global document Millennium Ecosystems Assessment. He has been adviser to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) New Delhi, Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University in USA. He has been a Fellow of the India China Institute at the New School in New York (2010-2013). His research has promoted several important public interest litigation in India. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has authored fourteen critically acclaimed books and monographs, in addition to 140 research papers and popular articles.

Dr Jean-Marc Rickli is the head of global risk and resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva Switzerland. He is also a senior advisor for the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Future Society and the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium on Emerging Security Challenges Working Group. Prior to these appointments Dr Rickli was an assistant professor at the Department of Defence Studies of Kings College London. Dr Rickli received his PhD in International Relations from Oxford University. His latest book published by Georgetown University is entitled Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century

Jeethu Cherian is a United Nations Fellow (UNITAR Global Diplomacy Initiative) and an Asia-Pacific Lead Analyst at Janes.

Jeffrey Jeb Nadaner is the Executive Vice President of Government &: Public Affairs at SAFE and Executive Director of its Commanding Heights initiative. Earlier he was the Lockheed Martin Vice President of Corporate Engineering &: Technology: JINSA Executive Vice President of Government Affairs: Director of the USMC Krulak Center of Innovation: and founder of the start-up Straight Trading.

Jens Sedemund Head of Unit Development Co-operation Directorate Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Commander Jérémy Bachelier is a former military fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center (CES) and Defense Research Unit (LRD). A French Navy officer, his career has been primarily dedicated to external operations, serving in both operational units and strategic headquarters in France and abroad. He is a graduate of the French Naval Academy and the French War College, and holds a Master’s degree in Geopolitics from the Sorbonne. He has taken part in numerous air and maritime operations, both national and coalition, as well as humanitarian and evacuation missions, and broader state maritime actions. His experience spans all major oceans, and his recent positions enable him to contribute to analyses on Indo-Pacific, maritime security, and strategic issues. He also oversaw the Paris Naval Conference jointly organized by the French Navy and Ifri.

Jerzy Kwaśniewski is a Polish attorney and co-founder of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, where he serves as President of the Board. A graduate of the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Law and Administration, he has represented citizens and civil society organizations in numerous precedent-setting cases before national and international courts. In 2020, he was recognized by Politico as one of the "28 most powerful people in Europe.

Professor Jesse Scott is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, as well as adjunct faculty at the Hertie School in Berlin since 2019. The focus of her work with ORF is the India-European Union trade talks and clean economy cooperation. She also analyses the reshaping of energy security by renewable energy, climate change, and geopolitics.

Jesse is a global expert on climate policy and the clean energy transition, who has served as International Director of thinktank Agora Energiewende, Deputy Secretary General of the European business group Eurogas, Coordinator on energy and digitalisation at the OECD International Energy Agency, Head of Environment Policies at business group Eurelectric, Head of the Brussels Office of thinktank E3G, and as a lawyer with White & Case.

She has held advisory roles toward senior political leaders, the European Commission, the UK, Italian, German, and Polish governments, the World Economic Forum, and major climate philanthropies. She guest teaches for the New York University School of Law, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, the Central European University, and University College London. Jesse has written extensively on the political economy of the clean energy transition, climate risk, and the evolution of new policy agendas in climate, digital, and European foreign relations.

Jesse earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and international law at Cambridge University. She is fluent in English and Italian.

Jhanvi Tripathi is an Associate Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation’s (ORF) Geoeconomics Programme. She served as the coordinator for the Think20 India secretariat during India’s G20 presidency in 2023. She currently serves on the International Advisory Board Secretariat of Think20 Brasil.

Her research includes international trade policy, including new trade issues like digital trade policy, and gender and trade, besides World Trade Organization reform, and NTMs. She also has a keen interest in conflict resolution and negotiation. 

Prior to this, she was an associate researcher on international trade policy for the Confederation of Indian Industry, where she worked on day-to-day government advisory on India’s FTA negotiations with the EU and the RCEP, in addition to WTO policy positions. She published multiple papers on Africa-India trade, global trade architecture, and trilateral cooperation in international trade. 

She holds a BA(H) in political science and diploma in conflict transformation and peacebuilding from the University of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College and an MSc in Comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

jung is a lecturer at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Seoul South Korea. She was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-17) at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Harvard University: Institute of Defence and Security Analyses New Delhi (2016): and Center for Air Power Studies New Delhi (2011-2014). Her research interests include Indias nuclear policy nuclear proliferation in South Asia and Indias foreign policy.

Jitendra Nath Misra is a former ambassador, serving as Professor of Diplomatic Practice at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He is the editor and co-author of Radhaland and Worlds Beyond.

John H. Matthews is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (http://alliance4water.org: http://AGWAGuide.org: AGWA). Since 2003 he has integrated technical and policy approaches for water and climate resilience over five continents and more than 30 countries publishing widely including in Science Nature Climate Change PLoS One and PLoS Biology. Beyond AGWA John is a Senior Water Fellow at Colorado State University and Water Resources Courtesy Faculty at Oregon State University.

Dr John Hemmings is Associate Professor Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Hawaii USA.

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Dr Jonathan Balls Research Associate and Project Manager India-UK Development Partnership Forum Newham College University of Cambridge

Jonathan Reiber is Senior Advisor at Technology for Global Security a think-do tank based in Palo Alto California and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeleys Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Prior to Berkeley Jonathan held a number of positions in the Obama administration within the US Department of Defense.Jonathan is the principal author of The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy (2015). He is a regular advisor to governments and corporations on risk management strategic planning and cybersecurity. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy The Christian Science Monitor The San Jose Mercury News Mint and Literary Hub among others.

Joseph Rozen is an expert in International Relations Asian affairs and National Security. He was the director for APAC and Euro-Asia affairs at the Israeli National Security Council

Joy Mitra is a non-resident fellow at the East West Institute and a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center. He researches on the intersection between technical force developments deterrence conceptions and stability challenges.

Joyashree Roy is the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology Thailand. She is Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University (now on lien). She is the founding advisor of the Global Change Programme and Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Project at Jadavpur University. She was the national fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She was Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at LBNL Berkeley US. She was part of the IPCC-2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning panel. She is Coordinating Lead Author in the fifth and sixth assessment cycles of the IPCC. She led a chapter of Global Energy Assessment. She was part of the winning team of the Prince Sultan Bin Aziz Award for water. She has published more than 130 peer reviewed articles and has authored and edited books. Her research interests are economics of pollution climate change modeling energy demand water quality demand water pricing sustainable development natural resource accounting and valuing environmental services.

Juan-Pablo Martnez-Molina Mercado is an investment specialist in private sector infrastructure in the East Asia Southeast Asia and the Pacific team at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).He looks for the development impact on society in everything he does. His belief in multilateralism has taken him on a 10-year journey from Europe to America and now to Asia following the setting sun. A career in banking at ADB and before at the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Investment Bank has catalysed his expertise in financing infrastructure projects in developing countries around the globe which allows him to be a valuable contributor in transforming our world.He completed his masters degree in civil engineering at Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya and earned a second master's degree (majoring in finance) from cole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses Paris.

Dr. Julia De Clerck-Sachsse is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously a Senior Advisor in the Strategic Planning Staff of the European External Action Service and Speechwriter and Communications Adviser to High Representatives Lady Catherine Ashton and Federica Mogherini. Dr. De Clerck-Sachsse has also held positions at the European Commission the German Federal Foreign Office Sciences Po Paris and the Centre for European Policy Studies. She is an ECFR Council Member and a Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Dahrendorf Programme at Oxford University. From 2020-2021 she was a Europes Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Julian R Lasius was a Research Intern in ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. His research interests include regime security in hydrocarbon states, geopolitics in emerging Asian markets, and North-South connectivity projects in Asia,

Naturally evolving in an international context passionate about social impact health &: wellbeing as well as environmental challenges Julien is a seasoned expert in innovation &: digital with a multifaceted profile whos been collaborating with large companies (digital healthcare &: aeronautic industries) with public authorities (EU governments European Commission) as well as with large hospitals universities research centres and NGOs. During his career he has mentored and he is still involved in several start-ups.Being both social entrepreneur intrapreneur researcher as well as an active citizen Julien develops comprehensive approaches involving scientific and strategic thinking (for public policies research or business development) as well as innovative methodologies for the design development &: implementation of innovations (digital products &: services).Managing his own company Malsamamind he is currently Head of the department of Social &: Health Innovation at Prasanna School of Public Health at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) (India) and also affiliated to the United Nations University.Hes Board Director of several international non-profit organisations such as the ECHAlliance the Digital Health Society the Digital Health Observatory and the Global Health Connector Partnership. Hes member of the WHO initiative ATACH related to the development of low-carbon healthcare systems.

Jyoti Shelar is an independent researcher, writer, and a former Mumbai-based health journalist.

K. M Gopakumar is a Senior Researcher and Legal Advisor at Third World Network (TWN) and based in New Delhi, India. TWN is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out policy research and advocacy on issues around trade and development, with a focus on third world countries. His work in TWN focuses on the global IP regime and its implications on development.

Dr. K. Madan Gopal is a senior public health expert with over three decades of experience in health sector reforms and health systems strengthening in India. An MBBS and MD in Preventive and Social Medicine, he has led several national and state-level initiatives focused on public health governance, health financing, insurance, community engagement, and digital health. He played a key role in designing and implementing programs such as the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, and the Aspirational Districts Programme. As a former Senior Consultant (Health) with NITI Aayog and currently Advisor – Public Health Administration at NHSRC, MoHFW, he continues to guide policy reforms, IPHS implementation, medical education expansion, and integrated approaches to health equity, urban health, senior care, and disease surveillance. Dr. Gopal brings deep insights into health systems transformation and intersectoral convergence, making him a valued contributor to India's policy think spaces.

Dr. K. S. Uplabdh Gopal is an Associate Fellow within the Health Initiative at ORF. His focus lies in researching and advocating for policies that address critical healthcare challenges, particularly within India’s healthcare landscape.

Before joining ORF, Dr. Gopal gained valuable experience through various roles encompassing clinical practice, healthcare management, and research in PwC and IQVIA.

Dr. Gopal holds an MBBS degree from JNMC Wardha and has contributed to healthcare literature through works such as "Shaping India’s Path to Inclusive Health Care" in The Hindu and "Awakening to Age: India’s Urgent Call for Senior Care Reform" in The Financial Express among other publications and academic research.

K. Yhome was Senior Fellow with ORFs Neighbourhood Regional Studies Initiative. His research interests include Indias regional diplomacy regional and sub-regionalism in South and Southeast Asia the Bay of Bengal region and Chinas southwest provinces.

Kabir Taneja is a Deputy Director and Fellow, Middle East, with the Strategic Studies programme. His research focuses on India’s relations with the Middle East (West Asia) specifically looking at the domestic political dynamics terrorism non-state militant actors and the general security paradigm of the region.

Kabir has authored books, chapters, journal articles and op-eds. He is a regular contributor to Indian and international press and speaks frequently at international conferences.

Kadira Pethiyagoda is a geopolitics expert and former political advisor and diplomat. His expertise on foreign policy stems from being a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Advisor to Australia’s Shadow Foreign Minister/Deputy Labor Leader and other MPs, and an Australian diplomat. His book Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values (based on his PhD) was published by Palgrave-MacMillan and endorsed by former Australian Labor Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans. He has a media profile as a geopolitics expert, having been interviewed by BBC, NY Times, Al Jazeera, CNN and various Indian media like WION and Republic TV. Dr Pethiyagoda has influenced debates relating to Asia through publishing in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Independent, Times of India and Australian Financial Review.

Kamal Dev Bhattarai is a Kathmandu-based journalist and policy commentator.

Kamal Malhotra is Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at Boston Universitys Global Development Policy Center. He led the UN in Vietnam Turkey Malaysia Singapore and Brunei (2008-2021) and was UNDP Senior Adviser on Inclusive Globalization (2002-2008). Kamal worked for non-government organisations between 1982-1995 including as Program Director Oxfam Australia. He was co-founder and co-director of the think tank Focus on the Global South (1995-99).A graduate of IIM Kamal has a MIPA from Columbia University and has earned prestigious awards including the President of Vietnams Order of Friendship. He is widely published including having initiated co-authored or led 6 books including UNDPs Making Global Trade Work for People.