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Amish Raj Mulmi is the author of All Roads Lead North: Nepal's Turn to China (Context/Hurst/Oxford University Press). He has written for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Centre for Social and Economic Progress Al Jazeera Hindustan Times Roads and Kingdoms India Today The Kathmandu Post and The Record. He is contributing editor for Himal Southasian and consulting editor at Writers Side Literary Agency.

Amit Mukherjee is a visiting fellow with IDSA New Delhi where he tracks India-Israel security cooperation. Amit is also a fellow at NSSC Haifa University Israel where he was earlier a post-doctoral fellow from 2013 to 2016.Amit has a masters in computer science. His PhD thesis was on: The application of GIS for Indias defence.Amits research interests include cybersecurity counterterrorism insurgency maritime security weapons and warfare and border management.

Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He recently co-edited The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact (Routledge, 2025) and is the author of Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India (Routledge, 2023). His research has been widely published in journals such as Asian Survey, India Review, EPW, and Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. He also writes opinion pieces for platforms like The Hindu, The Wire, East Asia Forum, and Asia Times, focusing on South Asian politics and international affairs.

Amrit Kumar Jha is a doctoral candidate at the Indian School of Business. He works at the intersection of innovation and industry, particularly for resource-constrained Industries such as Healthcare. He has multiple international conference papers in deep tech and holds a US patent in the Internet of Things(IoT). He has a degree in computer science from IIT Dhanbad and an MBA from SPJIMR, Mumbai and ESB, Germany.

Dr. Amrita Jash is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Institution of Eminence), India. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Pavate Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Jash has authored China’s Japan Policy: Learning from the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and The Concept of Active Defence in China’s Military Strategy (Pentagon Press, 2021).

Amritha Biju is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Ana Hajduka is a Founder &: CEO of Africa GreenCo which aims at developing an innovative new business model to help facilitate private investment in power projects in Africa via a public-private-partnership between African governments the private sector and international financial institutions.

Animesh Jain is a Policy Fellow with the Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India - Policy Analytics and Insights Unit. He has completed his master's in international security with concentrations in China &: East Asia and Diplomacy from Sciences Po Paris. He has previously worked with organizations including MKAI Kubernein Initiative Tianjin Intertech Corporation AI Policy Labs National Skill Development Corporation and Observers Research Foundation in different capacities.

Anindita Mukherjee works in the Founders’ Office at Newtrace.

Anindita Pujari is Advocate-on-Record The Supreme Court of India &: Hony. General Secretary The Bar Association of India.

Anjal Prakash Research Director and Adjunct Associate Professor Bharti Institute of Public Policy Indian School of Business Hyderabad India

Anjali Birla is an Indian Civil Services Officer(Batch 2020) working in the Ministry of Railways and has done her graduation in Political Science from Delhi University. She has an interest in International Relations particularly in Indias relations with its neighbours. She also runs two NGOs in the domain of women's empowerment &: environment.

Anjali Nayyar is Executive Vice President Global Health Strategies

Anjjali Shrivastav is a Research Intern with the Strategic Studies Programme at the Observer Research Foundation

Ankitha Brijesh is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Ankush Banerjee is a research scholar, and a three-time winner of the United Services Institution Gold Medal Essay Competition. He is a serving officer in the Indian Navy.

Anne Jenkins Enterprise Co-ordinator Womens Economic Imperative the UK

Anshu Banerjee Director for the Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing World Health Organization (WHO)

Anshu Bharadwaj is Chief Executive Officer at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF) provides leadership guidance and advisory policy support towards energy and environmental sectors programmes.

Anushka Wijesinha is an Economist based in Colombo and is a Co-founder of the public policy think tank Centre for a Smart Future. He was previously Advisor to the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade and the Chief Economist of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The author acknowledges the contributions made by Nimaya Dahanayake Research Assistant at CSF for this article.

Anya is a Research Analyst at NIIF. She works with the Strategy and Policy team and her role involves policy support and investment origination across multiple sectors for NIIFs funds.

Dr. Aparaajita Pandey is Senior Research Associate at ShowTime Consulting &: a Ph.D. from Centre for Latin American Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Aparajit Pandey is Program Coordinator, ORF.

Aparajita Das is a doctoral candidate in Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University

Aqib Mujtaba is a Research Analyst at the Institute of Economic Growth Delhi. His areas of research include energy economics growth capital flows. He has published in reputed international journals indexed in: Scopus ABDC Science Citation Index (SCI) Science citation index expanded (SCIE) and UGC-CARE listed journals.

Arindrajit Basu is a PhD Candidate at the Leiden University Faculty of Global Governance and Affairs. He is a lawyer by training and holds a BA LLB (Hons) degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and an LLM in public international law from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Arjan de Haan Senior Program Specialist International Development Research Centre

Arjanvir Singh is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Arjun Dubey is a Research Associate at the Institute for Human Development. He did his post-graduation in Development Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi. His areas of interest include Food and Nutrition, WASH, Labour and Employment issues, and Environment. He is currently involved in ESRC's project on Digitalisation of Food Assistance Schemes in India.

Arjun Dutt Senior Programme Lead Council on Energy Environment and Water

Arjun Gargeyasis an IIC-UChicago Fellow and was previously a researcher with the High-Tech Geopolitics Programme at the Takshashila Institution.

Arjun Gupta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smart Joules.

Arjun Kumar is the director of Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI) New Delhi.

Air Vice Marshal (Dr) Arjun Subramaniam (Retd) is a fighter pilot from the Indian Air Force, a military historian, air power analyst, and strategic commentator. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University and Jindal University. He has previously served as a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Asia Centre and the Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford. He is the author of India's Wars: A Military History, 1947–1971, and writes extensively in the public domain.

Arjun Sujith Varma is a Specialist, Skills, Social Sector, PwC India.

Arjunn Dixit holds a bachelor's degree in tourism studies and has extensive experience within the hospitality and events sector.

Presently, he serves as an Assistant Manager - Forums at ORF Delhi, actively engaging in the planning and seamless coordination of various events, conferences, and seminars.

Arpan Chatterji is a Research Intern at ORF. He is a student of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Arun Teja Polcumpally is a Research Assistant at the Center for Security Studies and a Doctoral Fellow at Jindal School of International Affairs

Aryan Bajpai was an intern with the Urban Policy Programme at ORF Mumbai.