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Nicolo Andreula is the Scientific Director of the Master in Digital Entrepreneurship at H-Farm. He holds MBA courses and seminars in leading business schools around the world such as INSEAD Nanyang Business School in Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for leading professional service firms such as McKinsey &: Company and Goldman Sachs building long-standing relationships with clients like Google Netflix Uber Microsoft the World Economic Forum.

Nicolas Albertoni is a professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay where he conducts researcher on international political economy and trade policy. He is a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar who holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations at University of Southern California (USC). He received a Masters in economics from USC and a Masters in Latin American Studies from Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service.

Nicolas Blarel is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science Leiden University in The Netherlands. He has published The Evolution of Indias Israel Policy: Continuity Change and Compromise since 1922 (Oxford University Press 2015) and recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Indias National Security (Oxford University Press 2018)

Nicolas Buchoud is the co-founder and President of the Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development, a think tank established in 2011 that focuses on inclusive, large-scale investment projects and environmental transformations. He is also the co-owner of Renaissance Urbaine, a strategic advisory consultancy he founded in 2006. Buchoud has extensive experience in public service, having served as a senior advisor to the President of the Paris Ile-de-France Region and held several other public roles. He is a member of the T20, a G20 think tank group, and has a strong educational background with multiple master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Paris La Sorbonne University. His work spans across urban research and development, with a particular focus on sustainable urban transitions globally.

Nidhi Madan is Senior Programme Manager (Climate Policy) at SSEF and works on low carbon development and land-use aspects.

Nidhi Piplani Kapur Irish Research Council PhD Scholar-Internationalisation at Home South East Technological University Ireland: Head Symbiosis Centre for European Studies Symbiosis International (Deemed University) India

Nikhil Goveas is Head of Special Projects at Koan Advisory Group a New Delhi-based consultancy. Nikhil leads Koan's work on agriculture and sustainability.

Nikhil Pahwa is the Founder Editor and Publisher of MediaNama (www.medianama.com) the leading publication for news and analysis on the evolving digital ecosystemin India. Nikhil is also a TED Fellow as well as a co-founder with SaveTheInternet.inand Internet Freedom Foundation.

Nikita is an advocacy & communication strategist, with over two decades of cross-sectoral expertise committed to driving transformative change. At The Leprosy Mission Trust India, she leads impactful advocacy initiatives, to inform and influence public policy at both national and state level, to increase political, public, and social support for people affected by leprosy, and to facilitate development of change agents.

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Dr Nilanjan Ghosh heads Development Studies at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and is the operational head of ORF’s Kolkata Centre. His career spans over two decades, including roles as Senior Fellow at ORF, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist at the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX), and faculty member at TERI School of Advanced Studies. He also played a pivotal role in advising WWF India in setting up their Ecological Economics practice.

He has held positions of Member, Global Future Council on the Future of Nature and Security at the World Economic Forum (2023–24); Co-Chair of Task Force 3 on International Financial Architecture for Think20 under Brazil’s G20 Presidency (2024); Member of the Board of Country Representatives, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE, 2024–25); and Member, Research Advisory Committee, WWF India (2023–25).

Nilanjan was the President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE, 2022–24) and served as the Director of the Think20 India Secretariat during India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. He was also a Member of the Expert Committee constituted by the Supreme Court of India in 2021 to formulate the Net Present Value criteria for forest land diversion.

He has taught at Linnaeus University (Sweden), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and Jadavpur University, and has visited Uppsala University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University. A Ph.D. in Economics from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Nilanjan has authored/edited 15 books and monographs, published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and written widely in popular media. He has advised several organisations including IUCN, FORMAS-Swedish Research Council, UNCTAD-India, WWF-UK, and IWMI-WLE.

Nilanthi Samaranayake is Director of the Strategy and Policy Analysis Program at CNA a non-profit research organisation in the Washington area. She studies non-traditional security issues including disaster relief and resilience. The views expressed are solely those of the author and not of any organisation with which she is affiliated.

Nimisha Chadha is a Research Assistant with ORF’s Centre for New Economic Diplomacy. She was previously an Associate at PATH (2023) and has a MSc in Policy Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Nina Sajić is a Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Banja Luka, where her academic focus encompasses international relations and diplomacy. She has earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent and an MA in Strategic Negotiations and Diplomacy from the University of Paris XI (Université Paris-Saclay). Besides her academic roles, she has served in significant diplomatic positions as an ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to several countries and has been a foreign policy advisor to the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research interests include federalism, multilevel governance, and nationalism, among other areas in international relations.

Niranjan Chandrashekhar Oak is a research scholar at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political funding), and cross-cutting issues of exclusion, insurgencies, affirmative action and inclusion. A recipient of the Asia Fellowship (2009) and a former Sir Ratan Tata Fellow, he currently serves as the South Asia member for the Carnegie Rising Democracies Network, where he debates and writes on democracy, foreign policy, human rights and other related issues.

Niranjan has authored two books: Politics of Power Sector Reforms in India (Pentagon Press, 2007) and Reservation Policy and its Implementation across Domains in India: An Analytical Review (Academic Foundation, 2009). His third book Exclusion and Insurgencies in India is in the pipeline. His latest (co-authored) monograph “Funding India’s Democracy” will be published soon. He regularly contributes for academic and current affairs journals, newspapers, think thanks and blogs, and features on television programmes related to his areas of expertise.

Nisarg Jani is a Doctoral Candidate at Pandit Deendayal Energy University situated in Gujarat, India. The author is also a Senior Research Staff Member at Geostrata, an independent youth-led think tank based in New Delhi where he Heads the Science and Technology Center, and Network for Advanced Studies of Technology Geopolitics (NAST) Fellow 2024-2025 at Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.

Nisha Holla is Visiting Fellow at ORF where she writes on ideas and shifts at the intersection of technology economics and policy. She tracks the impact of technology on democratising access to socio-economic development the importance of building strategic technology moats and policy frameworks required to drive indigenous technology development in India.

As Research Fellow at 3one4 Capital, Nisha has co-produced several first-of-its-kind reports such as India Employment Report 2024, Karnataka Jobs Report 2022-23, Karnataka: A $1 Trillion GDP Vision, Human Capital Development of India, India’s Response to COVID-19, Maharashtra 2025 — Road to USD One Trillion, Karnataka’s Response to COVID-19, Uttar Pradesh 2030 — An Accelerated Economic Vision, and the Bengaluru Innovation Report 2019.

Nisha has worked with the Department of Planning, GoK, to publish valuable collaborations between government and industry experts such as the Economic Survey of Karnataka 2021-22 and $1 Trillion Economy: Karnataka’s Vision.

Nisha has co-authored numerous articles on human capital development in India, comparative studies of Indian states’ economic and demographic growth, multiple facets of India’s technology readiness, and India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her writings have appeared in The Financial Express, The Indian Express, The Sunday Guardian, Moneycontrol, cnbc, Times of India, Mint, Deccan Herald, and YourStory.

As Technology Fellow at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), Nisha explores policy and economic strategies in scientific and technological development.

At Biomoneta Research, Nisha worked on designing technology for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases. Nisha was earlier based in the San Francisco Bay Area working at the cutting edge of hardware product and process development.

Nisha is co-inventor of a US patent designed to optimise semiconductor processing workflows.

A chemical engineer by training, Nisha holds a Master’s of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree from RV College of Engineering.

Nishant Sirohi is an advocate and a legal researcher specialising in the intersection of human rights and development - particularly issues of health, climate change, and the right to development. He currently holds positions as a Law & Society Fellow at Transitions Research, Goa and a Health & Human Rights Fellow at Geneva Health Files. Nishant holds an M.Phil. in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and a B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) from Aligarh Muslim University.

Nishtha Gautam was Associate Fellow at Observer Research Foundation where she works on gender issues in policy and governance. She holds an MPhil from the Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi and is a lecturer at one of the institution's affiliated colleges. Her analysis pieces have appeared in various periodicals like Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail (UK), The Caravan, India Today, Hindustan Times, The Pioneer, DNA, Mail Today, Daily O, as well as the web editions of NDTV and CNN-IBN. Her views are frequently solicited by radio and TV broadcasts for discussions on gender issues.

Dr Nitya Mohan Khemka is Director at PATH- a global Health think-tank focussing on health equity. She is also Trustee of the Khemka Foundation, an Indian public charitable trust. Prior to PATH, she was the Head of the UK Liaison Office for the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) where she was instrumental in establishing the organization’s presence in the United Kingdom. Nitya is also an Associate Fellow at Homerton College at the University of Cambridge where she researches topics spanning gender inequality, poverty and human development. A Fellow Commoner for Clare Hall College, Nitya advises the college on its academic programmes and fundraising strategy.

Nitya holds a PhD and MPhil in Development Studies from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. She holds an MA in Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Economics and Statistics from Bangalore University. She serves on the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, supporting the Women and Public Policy Program and on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UK Advisory Board. Dr Khemka has published on a wide range of topics in human development. Her most recent book is titled “Rethinking Philanthropy in the Global South: Public-Private Partnerships in a Post-COVID World” (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Her last books were Pathways to Equality: Advancing Gender Goals (Global Policy Journal, 2023) and Accelerating Global Health Equity in G20 Nations (ORF, 2023).

Nivedita Kapoor is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia. Nivedita was formerly Junior Fellow with ORFs Strategic Studies Programme.

Noam Angrist is passionate about bridging the gap between rigorous evidence and scaled policy and practice. Noam is a Co-Founder of Young 1ove Organisation.

Norma Patricia Muoz Sevilla Honorary Mentor Protect Our Planet Movement: Professor Instituto Politcnico Nacional-CIIEMAD

Noyontara Gupta was a Junior Fellow with Programmes, Appraisal and Management. She is also the Intern Coordinator at ORF Delhi. Her research interests include international politics and world history.

Nunzia Carbonara is Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the Politecnico di Bari. Her current research interests include risk mitigation strategies and innovation management in public procurement public private partnerships supply chain risk issues geographical clusters local development and innovation processes. Her work on these topics has been published or accepted in premier academic journals. She has been involved in several national and international research projects as Principal Investigator or co-PI. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the MAYFEB Journal of Business and Management.

Oana Popescu-Zamfir GlobalFocus Center Bucharest