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Samar Jai Singh Jaswal is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Samriddhi is an Associate Fellow, Geopolitics at ORF Middle East, where she focuses on producing research and furthering the dialogue on regionally relevant foreign policy initiatives. Her research focuses on economic diplomacy and economic peace, often working at the intersection of geoeconomics and peace building.

She holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, a Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and a Bachelors in Economics from Hans Raj College, Delhi University.

She has previously worked with United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary General, New York where she engaged directly with the UN Secretary General and senior UN leadership to facilitate decision making on high priority global challenges. Additionally, she worked with Harvard University’s Belfer Centre and Middle East Initiative to research great power competition in the Arabian Gulf. She has also assisted in teaching multiple courses at Harvard University centered on the Middle East, Mediation and Economics.

Earlier in her career, she led program management nationally for primary grades, life skills and girls’ education at Pratham Education Foundation, India.

Sanchayan Banerjee is a second-year doctoral candidate in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the school and a Research Assistant at LSEs Middle East Centre. Sanchayan is affiliated as a research student to LSEs Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and his research lies at the intersection of behavioural experimental and environmental economics in developing and testing a new theory of behaviour change- Nudge Plus.

Sanchayan Bhattacharjee was an Associate Fellow at ORF Mumbai. He works primarily in education and skill development.

Sanjana was a Research Assistant at ORF. She is currently working on the non-traditional security issues in South Asia.

Sanjana is a partner at CPC Analytics. As part of CPC she has consulted for public sector and non-governmental organizations such as GIZ Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Save the Children among others. She has also worked with city governments on open data and is a member of the DataMeet Open data community in Pune. Sanjana has a Masters in Urban Policy and Governance from Tata Institute for Social Sciences Mumbai an undergraduate degree in physics from St. Xaviers College Mumbai and a diploma in Cyber Law from Government Law College Mumbai. Prior to working with CPC she has worked with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Homi Bhabha Centre for Scientific Education.

Sanjay has spent over two and a half decades in the midst of global events. For Sanjay: A journalist is where the story is.He is the former Managing Editor of NDTV Worldwide. Sanjay lives in Gurgaon with his kids his dogs. He loves gardening football and a good laugh.

Dr. Sanjay Bhattacharya was trained in Microbiology from JIPMER Hospital in Puducherry in 2000. He also received training in Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Virology from various NHS teaching hospitals in the UK between 2002 and 2009. He has been working as a Consultant in Microbiology at Tata Medical Center in Kolkata since 2010. His areas of interests include Antimicrobial Stewardship Hospital Infection Control and Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases. He is the author of more than 100 papers in national and international journals along with several book chapters. He is visiting faculty in Molecular Medical Microbiology at IIT- Kharagpur. Dr. Bhattacharya has been involved in managing/ leading several research projects at the institutional level which have been funded by the Department of Biotechnology Indian Council of Medical Research and CDC. He has been part of the WHO working group on the Priority Pathogen List of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria for the Discovery Research and Development of new antibiotics Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection for the Control of Carbapenem Resistant Organisms in-vitro-Diagnostics for AMR.

Sanjay Byalal is the Co-founder of Exponent Energy.

Sanjay Kapoor is the Editor of Delhi-based Hardnews Magazine the South Asian partner of Le Monde Diplomatique. He has authored a book on corruption and is a regular commentator on Indian and foreign TV channels.

Sanjay Koushik is a Senior Program Lead at Central Square Foundation and works in the Early Childhood Education team. He works closely with multiple state government agencies and technical partner organisations to improve the delivery of pre-primary education programs. Before CSF, he was a social entrepreneur, working with municipal corporations across western India to drive education reforms. Sanjay holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, a master’s in public policy from NALSAR University, and a bachelor’s in engineering from NIT Warangal.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar is a Population Dynamics and Research Specialist at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in India.

Dr. Sanjay M Pattanshetty is Head of theDepartment of Global Health Governance Prasanna School of Public Health Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Manipal Karnataka India. Additionally he has an affiliation with theDepartment of International Health Care and Public Health Research Institute CAPHRI Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands as an External PhD candidate.Aniruddha Inamdar is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Diplomacy Department of Global Health Governance Prasanna School of Public Health Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Manipal India

Sanjay Pulipaka is a Senior Fellow at the Delhi Policy Group. He was a Pavate Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a former Fulbright Fellow in the US.

Sanjay Seth Senior Director Sustainable Infrastructure Programme The Energy &: Resources Institute (TERI)

Arise and Awake - . . .

Sanjay Srivastava is Chief Disaster Risk Reduction ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division ESCAP

Sanjeet Kashyap is a PhD candidate in International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also interned with the Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation.

Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia has core skills in institutional analysis, energy and economic regulation and public financial management backed by eight years of project management experience (2005 to 2013) in governance and policy support with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) practice of the World Bank in Africa. Subsequently, he worked as a consultant for World Bank governance projects in India and most recently in electricity reform in Myanmar and Energy Transition in India.

He was the founder Secretary of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Government of India, in 1999. During three years of consultancy with TERI he provided technical assistance to the newly corporatized utility GRIDCO to submit its first Tariff Application to the Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission under the World Bank and DFID assisted Orissa Electricity Reform Project.

In the Government of India, he was in the Ministry of Disinvestment, Department of Economic Affairs and in the Ministry of Commerce. He has ten years of experience in industrial and rural development, district, and municipal administration, and was Secretary, Finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which was his home cadre in the Indian Administrative Service.

He has a master’s in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York; a post graduate diploma in financial management from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, and a master’s in history from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

He is affiliated with the Observer Research Foundation as an Advisor since 2014.

He hosts a Blog - https://ahlu-india.com/

Select Publications

"From Lattus to Lasers" Realising India's Electricity Potential" 2022. TERI Alumini Association & Shakti Foundation, New Delhi.

“Co-authored “Sustainable Urban Networks for Dynamic and Resilient (SUNDAR) India”. 2022. RTI International

“Valuing our common future” September 30,2022 orfonline.org

“Glasgow 2021 – Reward aggressive carbon mitigation” Asian Age, August 24, 2021.

Sanjeev Gupta Senior Policy Fellow Center for Global Development

Sanjith Srikanth is a Project Manager at ORF within the Performance, Appraisal and Management Team.

Before joining ORF, he worked for a US-based risk and diligence company, where he conducted investigative due diligence research and provided technology-enabled compliance solutions for governments and multinational corporations. He subsequently worked as a consultant for a Big-4 company within the regulatory compliance team. He has a combined major in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Sanjiv Krishan Sood retired as Additional Director General Border Security Forces BSF.

Sankalp Gurjar is an Assistant Professor at the Department ofGeopolitics and International Relations Manipal Academy of Higher Education Udupi India. He works on International Relations of the Indo-Pacific Great Power Politics and the Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region and is the author ofThe Superpowers Playground: Djibouti and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in the 21st Century(Routledge: 2023).

Saon Banerjee is Professor AICRP on Agrometeorology Directorate of Research Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) Mohanpur Nadia West Bengal.

Sarayu Natarajan is co-founder of Aapti Institute. Sarayu is a political scientist by training. She co-hosts the podcast Ganatantra.

Saroj Kumar Aryal is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His areas of expertise include South Asian geopolitics, India's foreign policy, Nepal's foreign policy, and small states in international relations and regional security complexes.

Satyajit Sen is a policy adviser at the Federation of Prince Edward Island Municipalities Canada and a researcher on islands oceans environment and local governance. He holds degrees in Law and Island Studies. With a particular focus on Sustainable Island Communities Island Public Policy and International Relations he has experience conducting research advocacy and government relations and providing strategic advisory on legislative regulatory policy and governance issues in Prince Edward Island and its local governments.

Sejal Patel is a Professor and the Chair of the Housing Program at CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a Member of the High Level Committee on Urban Planning, Gujarat

Senjuti Mallick graduated from ILS Law College Pune in 2016. She was a Law Researcher at the High Court of Delhi from 2016 to 2018 and is currently pursuing LL.M in International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy USA. She has been doing research on Outer Space Law since she was a student at ILS. Presently she is working on different aspects of Space Law in particular Space debris mitigation and removal and the law of the commons. She has published articles on Space Law in the All India Reporter Law Journal and The Hindu.

Dr. Shahana Chattaraj is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research New Delhi. She holds a PhD from Princeton University in Public Affairs and a Master's degree from MIT in planning and international development. She has held various fellowships and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University consulted at World Bank and worked for several years at the United Nations Population Fund.

Dr. Shahid Jameel established and for 25 years led the Virology Group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi. He was CEO of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance and Founder Director Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University. He is currently a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College University of Oxford UK.

Shailja Mehta leads the 10to19 Dasra Adolescents Collaborative overseeing operations partnerships and financial management.

Shambhavi Joshi is an Associate Consultant at CPC Analytics.

Sharinee L. Jagtiani Post-Doctoral Fellow Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering

Shashank Joshi is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is also Senior Policy Fellow at Renewing the Centre within the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard the latter as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States in 2007-08. He has lectured to the UK Defence Academy on a regular basis as well as other political diplomatic and military audiences in Britain Europe and Asia. He has given evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and Defence Committee several times. His most recent book