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Pahi Saikia is a Professor of Political Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). Her academic specialization lies in Comparative Politics and International Relations. Professor Saikia has published three books from Routledge, book chapters and several articles in peer reviewed journals such as Political Psychology, India Review among others South Asian History and Culture on a range of subjects related to security and insurgencies, electoral campaigns and political behavior, ethnofederalism, identity-digital media nexus, women in post-conflict zones, and India's multilateral connectivity. Her recent book titled: Insurgency in India’s Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State- Building, and Secessionist Resistance (September 1, 2023) from Routledge, United Kingdom was co-authored by Professor Jugdep S.Chima, Hiram College, Ohio, USA. In 2018, she was awarded the Indo-Shastri Fellowship Grant to conduct her research at Carleton University, Canada. She was invited as a Visiting Academic to Perth Australia in 2013. Prior to joining IIT, she taught in term positions at the University of Victoria, Canada and served as a research associate at the Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, University of Victoria, Canada. She is the recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship for PhD degree at McGill university, Canada.

Dr. Pallika Singh is a Delhi based doctor from Lady Hardinge Medical College New Delhi. She is a scholar an avid reader and writes regular columns on health and social reforms. Working on women healthcare and the role of stakeholders in uplifting their health and Quality of Life. Associated with health organisations and outreach programmes during Covid pandemic along with various publications in her name. She co-founded and conceptualised an organisation on strengthening democracy and increasing participation in politics. She is also a National Co-ordinator and in-charge (Delhi-NCR) for Vichar Vibhag (Intellectual Cell) Indian National Congress.

Pamla Gopaul is Head, Africa Policy Bridge Tank Programme, AUDA-NEPAD Economic Analysis and Foresight Unit.

Pankaj Kumar is a Deputy Manager- Administration at Observer Research Foundation.

His work focuses on the travel strategy, specifically in International and domestic itineraries and executions of flights, transportation, hotels bookings.

Pankaj previously worked for Yatra online.

Pankaj Wajire has a post-graduate degree in Computer Engineering with specialisation in Information Security from College of Engineering Pune Technological University (COEP Tech).

Paresh Rawal was a consultant with Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai. His current research includes domestic policies on transportation, mobility and logistics. He is working on improving freight quotient of Indian Railways in India’s logistics market.

2nd and subsequent paragraphs Paresh tracks practical and implementable solutions in mass mobility — in context to urbanisation. He has prepared a ‘Saral Timetable’ which provides zero-cost solution to overcrowding in Mumbai.

Paresh has made policy recommendations with passenger fare structures in order to improve the financial health of the Indian Railways. He is simultaneously setting up a library system at ORF Mumbai based on Dewey Decimal Classification System.

Parjanya was a Research Fellow with ORF Mumbai chapter. His research focuses on terrorism and the security situation in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. His writing elaborates on the Pakistan-sponsored hybrid warfare including the information warfare (IW) perception management and the larger nexus with China in the PoK. Parjanya has extensively travelled in the state. Before joining ORF Parjanya was a print media journalist for nearly a decade. He holds MA in international politics from the University of Manchester UK.

Parul Bakshi is Fellow – Energy and Climate at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Middle East, where her research spans the themes of energy transition, energy security, geopolitics of energy, decarbonization strategies, and sustainability. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), contributing to research on global energy markets and transitions.

Previously, she served as a Researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo, and at Ghent University in Belgium. She was also a recipient of the Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Fellowship. Earlier in her career, Parul worked as a Research Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation – FSR Global, where her work focused on energy security in South Asia, cross-border electricity trade, interoperability and open standards in power systems, and green hydrogen policy.

Parul holds a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, where her research examined Japan’s post-Fukushima energy transition toward renewables, drawing comparative lessons from Germany’s Energiewende.

She is the co-editor of India–Japan Relations @70: Building Beyond the Bilateral (2022) and Geographies of Exchange between India and Japan (2024). Her work has appeared in international journals and platforms including The Pacific Review, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, The Diplomat, The East Asia Forum, and The Japan Times.

Patrick O. Okigbo III is the Founder and Principal Partner at Nextier - a leading public policy advisory firm and think tank with a focus on governance and public-sector reforms. Patrick is a nationally-recognised leader and public intellectual. He has over 23 years experience providing policy strategic and financial advisory services across a range of industries in West Africa and the United States: in high impact organisations: Accenture (Lagos) Citigroup (New York and Washington DC) Transcorp Plc. (Lagos) The Presidency (Abuja) and Nextier (Abuja). He provides advise to senior national and international officials and organisations. He has extensive professional and social network and knowledge of current political economic social and regulatory issues in Nigeria. Patrick has a Executive Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science a Masters in Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta and a Bachelors in Agriculture from University of Nigeria.

Patrizia Cogo Morales is Project Manager and Research Assistant at the Elcano Royal Institutes Office in Brussels. She also works as a Project Officer at the Centre for Security Diplomacy and Strategy of the Brussels School of Governance. Previously she worked at the Esade Geo-Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics within the team of Dr. Javier Solana. She has also worked at the in-house think tank of the Government of Catalonia the European Institute of the Mediterranean and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Patrizia holds a double bachelors in Law and Global Governance from Esade and a Master in International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with exchange programs in Jerusalem and New Delhi. She was also Lead Co-Founder and President of the European Guanxi network. Her expertise includes EU-India relations EU-China relations and Sino-Indian relations.

Peace Chikodinaka Eze is a Broadcast Journalist with vast knowledge in covering issues of development crisis politics and gender.She is a Co-anchor of one of Nigeria's leading breakfast shows 'Kakaaki the African Voice' on Africa Independent Television AIT headquartered in Abuja. She also doubles as a Reporter and Producer.

Pencho Kuzev Policy Advisor Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Berlin Germany

Peter is a business executive who thrives at the apex of business government and civil society. Peter excels at leading diverse professionals from diverse cultures to develop and execute strategy on complex challenges.Recently Peter has advised Government on public private extractives aid programs. Peter relocated to Delhi in mid-2016 was the COO at Flexing It (worlds largest platform for on demand high end professionals) is the India Country Director for Innovation State of Play a Research Fellow at PerthUSAsia Centre and a visiting associate at Brookings India. Peter also continues to advise corporates on nation building matters.

Péter Pál Kránitz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, specializing in Armenia, the Caucasus, forced migration, and genocide research. He earned his PhD in 2023 with a dissertation on international political discourses concerning the Armenian Question. His scholarly work has been published in multiple languages across various peer-reviewed journals.

Peter Stein is an economist and a noted expert on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Stein has taught applied macro- and microeconomics at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology. He has been a consultant to the OECD the International Chamber of Commerce and Swedish government commissions. Peter Stein is currently CEO of Stein Brothers AB and a consultant to Swedish companies and public-sector entities on Africa. Stein is a frequent commentator on African affairs in Swedish and international media.

Peter Swire is Associate Director for Policy of the Institute for Information Security and Privacy (IISP) at Georgia Tech. Swire is the Research Director of the Cross-Border Data Forum. He has been a privacy and cyberlaw scholar government leader and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990s. Swire is the Elizabeth and Tommy Holder Chair in the Scheller College of Business with appointments by courtesy with the College of Computing and School of Public Policy. He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston and Bird LLP.