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Purushottam Ojha is former Commerce Secretary of the Government of Nepal.

Purushraj Patnaik is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Purva Jain has over eight years of experience in policy advocacy and research in the development sector. Her areas of policy interest include renewable energy climate change energy subsidies electric vehicles and sustainable development. She has previously engaged as a policy consultant with - G20 Sherpa team in the International Economic Relations Division at the Indian Ministry of Finance and the Global Subsidies Initiative of the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD). Currently she is working as an independent consultant with focus on renewable energy and climate change.

Purvaja Modak Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow Global Economic Governance Initiative Boston University Global Development Policy Center

Radhika Jha is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with 22 years of experience in civil service at the district, state and federal levels. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Raj Arora PhD Professor (Visiting) IIT Delhi has almost three decades of experience as a field practitioner of border security cybersecurity counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in various parts of India and abroad.

Raj Kumar Gope Team Lead Ekjut India

Dr Raj Kumar Sharma is a Visiting Fellow at United Service Institution of India New Delhi. Prior to it he was Maharishi Kanad Post-Doc Fellow at Delhi School of Transnational Affairs Institution of Eminence University ofDelhi. He has been also associated with Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi Rashtriya Raksha University Ahmedabad and Press Trust of India New Delhi. His latest publication is 'India and Russia in International Organizations: Motives Strategies and Outcomes' in MGIMO Review of International Relations Moscow Russia.

Raj M. Desai, Professor of International Development, Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government, Georgetown University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Raj Shekhar is the Lead Responsible AI at NASSCOM, driving NASSCOM's efforts at defining a roadmap for an extensive roll-out and adoption of responsible AI in India. The views expressed above are those of the author and do not represent the views of Nasscom or its members.

Lt Gen Raj Shukla a recently retired Army Commander has an enviable operational service / record spanning forty three years. He also has an abiding interest in strategic military affairs and has authored close to 50 articles / publications and lectured / participated in more than 170 talks / seminars in India and abroad.

Rajan is a technologist with 30+ years’ experience cutting across industry sectors and hi-tech domains. He is a Distinguished Fellow and a Member Trustee at Observer Research Foundation. An engineer by profession with an executive MBA in national security and counter-terrorism, he is passionate about critical and emerging technologies, innovation, global partnerships, strategic risk management, and public policy.

At Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India's #1 private sector company, Rajan has worked across all its’ businesses for 25 years. At Reliance Retail, India’s largest retailer with over 18,000 stores, he was part of the founding team spear-heading business strategy, technology architecture, business processes and loss prevention. As the head of special projects in the Chairman’s Office at RIL, he currently leads a digital platform team and setting up world’s first enterprise Joint Operations Centre. As an Investment Committee member in Israel’s leading early-stage incubator, he has led RIL investments in 15+ startups in AI, IoT, ed-tech, agri-tech, med-tech, smart city, cyber-security, quantum computing space.

Rajan is among the pioneers of electronic security industry in India and was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement award. Starting his career with entrepreneurial stints in identity management, packaged software, and system integration ventures, he has been amongst the earliest adopters of advanced technologies including RFID, biometrics, IoT, IP-video, AI, computer vision and drones.

Other honorary positions:

Rajarshi Banerjee is serving as Director of the Environment Monitoring Laboratory, AAETI (unit of CSE), Neemli, Rajasthan, India.

Rajat Kathuria Dean and Professor of Economics Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence

Rajat Khosla is a Director, United Nations University, International Institute on Global Health

Rajat Panwar Associate Professor Oregon State University USA

Col. Rajeev Agarwal is Senior Research Consultant at Chintan Research Foundation. Earlier, he was Research Fellow at IDSA, New Delhi; Director, Military Intelligence; and Director, Ministry of External Affairs.

Rajeev Ahuja is a development economist formerly with the World Bank.

Dr Rajeev Jayadevan MD DNB MRCP (UK) ABIM (Medicine New York) is a former president of the Cochin Chapter of the Indian Medical Association. He is a member of the National Task Force IMA for Coronavirus Epidemic. He is a well known panellist and scientific advisor/public educator on multiple healthcare topics.

Rajeev Kher Distinguished Fellow Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)

Rajeev Mantri is managing director of venture investment firm Navam Capital.

Rajeev Sadanandan is former Indian bureaucrat from the Kerala cadre of the Indian Administrative Service and a healthcare policymaker. He has been working and researching in the area of health systems policy and financing for over two decades. He has been involved with the health system of the state of Kerala and has been active in health sector reforms in the state spearheading the remarkable state-wide effort to arrest the Nipah virus in 2018. After serving as the Additional Chief Secretary Kerala taking care of the Department of Health and Family Welfare he took over as the Chief Executive Officer of Health Systems Transformation Platform (HSTP) funded by the Tata Trusts.

Rajen Harshé is a founder and former Vice Chancellor of the Central University of Allahabad Prayagraj and former President of the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute A Constituent Institute of the University of Allahabad Prayagraj.

Prof. Rajendra Pratap Gupta has served as a member of the Guidelines Development Group ( Digital Health) of the WHO: Steering Committee Member at the Global Digital Health Index: Member of the Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum ( Digital Health) and as an Advisor to the Union Health Minister Government of India.

Rajesh Basrur is Professor of International Relations at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He has taught in the University of Mumbai and held visiting appointments at among others the University of Oxford the University of Birmingham and Stanford University. He has authored five books including (with Kate Sullivan De Estrada)Rising India: Status and Power(Routledge 2017)

Dr. Rajesh Rajagopalan is Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. His publications include three books: Nuclear South Asia: Keywords and Concepts [co-authored with Atul Mishra]: Fighting like a Guerrilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency: and Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia.Dr. Rajagopalans articles have appeared in a number of academic and policy journals that include The Washington Quarterly Contemporary Security Policy India Review Contemporary South Asia Small Wars and Insurgencies South Asia South Asian Survey and Strategic Analysis as well as in Indian newspapers as Economic Times The Hindu The Indian Express Financial Express and Hindustan Times.

Rajeshwari Dasgupta is a Research Intern at ORF. She is currently pursuing a PhD in International Relations from Presidency University.

Dr Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan was the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSST) at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.  Dr Rajagopalan was the Technical Advisor to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Prevention of Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) (July 2018-July 2019).  She was also a Non-Resident Indo-Pacific Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre from April-December 2020.  As a senior Asia defence writer for The Diplomat, she writes a weekly column on Asian strategic issues.

Dr Rajagopalan joined ORF after a five-year stint at the National Security Council Secretariat (2003-2007), Government of India, where she was an Assistant Director.  Prior to joining the NSCS, she was Research Officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.  She was also a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan in 2012.

Dr Rajagopalan has authored or edited nine books including Global Nuclear Security: Moving Beyond the NSS (2018), Space Policy 2.0 (2017), Nuclear Security in India (2015), Clashing Titans: Military Strategy and Insecurity among Asian Great Powers (2012), The Dragon's Fire: Chinese Military Strategy and Its Implications for Asia (2009).  She has published research essays in edited volumes, and in peer reviewed journals such as India Review, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air and Space Power Journal, International Journal of Nuclear Law and Strategic Analysis.  She has also contributed essays to newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Times of India, and The Economic Times.  She has been invited to speak at international fora including the United Nations Disarmament Forum (New York), the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) (Vienna), Conference on Disarmament (Geneva), ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and the European Union.

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Rajib Dasgupta is a Professor and Chairperson at the Centre of Social Medicine Community Health at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also a member of the National AEFI (Adverse Effects Following Immunisation) Committee.

Rajiv Bhatia Distinguished Fellow Gateway House

Rajiv Jayaram is a New Delhi based researcher and journalist with over 25 years of experience covering South Asian affairs. He worked with ORFs Pakistan programme during 2004-05. Rajiv can be contacted on [email protected]

Dr. Rajiv Kumar is a HK Research Professor at Institute of Indian Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea. He was an affiliate scholar at the East-West Center in United States. His research focuses on International Relations Indias Relations with East Asia and Korean Affairs. Rajiv Kumar has widely published in various reputed academic journals periodicals and online platforms.

Col. Rajiv Lathar is a Serving Army Officer of the Indian Armed Forces.

Dr Rajiv Pathni an IAF Veteran is an alumnus of AFMC AIIMS and IIFT. A recipient of WHO Fellowship (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) his interests include healthcare strategy and digital health. With over 30 years of healthcare leadership experience he now focuses on mentoring research and consultancy. Dr Pathni has also trained as a pilot.

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is Assistant Professor College of Liberal Arts Shanghai University Shanghai PRC. He was one of the panellists at the event Combatting Coronavirus organised jointly by ORF and the Consulate General of China in Mumbai on 3 March 2019