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Anamitra Anurag Danda is Senior Visiting Fellow with ORF’s Energy and Climate Change Programme. His research interests include: sustainability and stewardship, collective action and institution building, adaptation to climate change, and nature conservation.

Anamitra has worked in the areas of sustainability, sustainable development and nature conservation for over two decades. He has long implementation experience in the areas of energy access, climate change adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, education, community forestry, and nature conservation.

He has been a practitioner for nearly two and a half decades in the environment and development sectors. Bulk of his experience in nature conservation, the practice of sustainable development and adaptation to climate change was gained in the Sundarban region. He is the Director, Sundarbans Programme, WWF-India.

Anand is a senior associate at The Asia Group.

Ananyashree Gupta was a Research Assistant with the Centre for Economy &: Growth Delhi.

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Senior Fellow with ORF’s Neighbourhood Initiative. She is the Editor, ORF Bangla. She specialises in regional and sub-regional cooperation in South Asia, energy politics, forced migration and women in conflict zones.

Anasua was the Visiting Fellow (2012) at The Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris , where she work on the subject “Logistics of Regional Integration in Europe and Question of Sovereignty.” As the recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Senior Media Fellowship (2007), Anasua produced a paper — Vernacular Dailies and the Ethnic and/or Religious Stereotypes in the Time of Violence. She received the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo in 1998-99. She is also the author of the paper — The Energy Crisis and Sub-regional Cooperation in South Asia — published by RCSS as Policy Studies 13. Anasua is also trained in Thematic Protection Learning Programme on Statelessness organized by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva.

Anasua was ICSSR Post Doctoral Fellow (2004-06) at the Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi

She is the editor of the online journal — IAAPS Perspective. Co- editor of a peer reviewed journal: Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR), published by IMPRI since 2020. She is a member in the Editorial Board of an international peer reviewed journals anmely: Borders in Globalisation Review published by Centre for Global Studies, Canada (since 2019); Journal for Indian Ocean research punlished by Routledge, New Delhi (Since 2020)

Her recent publications include: Caste and partition of Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees I 1946-1964 (Co-authored/ Oxford University Press: UK, 2022); India’s relations with neighbouring South and South East Asian countries: Perspectives on Look East to Act East (Springer Nature: Singapore, 2023): New futures of BIMSTEC: connectivity, commerce and security (co-edited/ Routledge: UK, 2021), Reimagining BIMSTEC: Strengthening regional solidarity across the Bay of Bengal region (Co-edited/ ORF: New Delhi, 2021); India– Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity (co-edited/ Routledge: UK, 2020); Connecting Nations: Politico-Cultural Mapping of India and South East Asia (co-edited/ Primus: New Delhi 2019); The State of Being Stateless in South Asia (co-edited, Orient Black Swan: 2015); Women in Indian Borderlands (co-edited/ Sage 2011); and SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (Samskriti: 2006).

Anasua is a regular contributor to peer reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines.

Anchal Vohra was a Fellow at ORF. She writes on contemporary developments in West Asia and on foreign policy.

Anchalee Kongrut is an editor and columnist with the Bangkok Post.

Anders Olofsgård, Deputy Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics; Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Andr-Michel Essoungou is an author a former journalist and currently a political advisor at the United Nations in New York. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent with the BBC World Service and Radio France International. Andr-Michel is the author of two books covering the politics of international justice in Africa and the western media discourse on African civil wars. He holds a masters degree in political science from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Andre Kwok is founder of the Future City Summit and Good City Foundation.

Andrea M. Bassi is Founder and CEO KnowlEdge Srl (Italy) and a Senior Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Switzerland). His research focuses on green economy and green growth using Systems Thinking and System Dynamics as underlying methods to inform policy making at national and sub-national level.

Dr. Andreas Kuehn is a senior fellow at ORF Americas Cyber Cooperation Initiative.

Andreas Østhagen is a Senior Researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and an Associate Professor at High North Center at Nord University Business School. He is also affiliated with The Arctic Institute, the Wilson Center, and Oslo New University College. His work focuses on geopolitics, security and ocean governance and resource management in the Arctic and beyond. Østhagen is the author of Norway’s Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity (2023), Ocean Geopolitics (2022) and Coast Guards and Ocean Politics in the Arctic (2020). He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of British Columbia, a MSc From London School of Economics, and is a Fulbright alumni with research visits at the Belfer Center, Harvard University, and at the Wilson Center.

Andrew Ruolngul is an Associate Fellow with Mr. N.K. Singh, Chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a non-resident senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He also holds a visiting fellowship at the Australian National Universitys National Security College. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations EU-China relations and broader developments in Chinese foreign and economic policy.

Andrey Bystritskiy is the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

Andrey Ignatyev Head of Analytics Center for Global IT Cooperation Moscow

Andrey Sushentsov is Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club. He is also Director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University Russia.

Angad Singh Brar is a Research Assistant at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His research focuses on issues of global governance, multilateralism, India’s engagement of International Organisations and Institutional reform.

Angad completed his MPhil in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. His dissertation focused on India’s diplomatic strategies to reform the UN Security Council. He received the University Gold Medal for both his undergraduate and graduate studies in Sociology from Panjab University in India. He has also worked for The Indian Express as a journalist.