Dr. Divya Balan is Assistant Professor in International Studies at FLAME University, Pune, India. She holds a doctorate degree in European Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Divya served as an international visiting fellow of the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2018. Recipient of several scholarships and research grants, she has published monographs, research papers in edited books and journals, and thought pieces in international and Indian newspapers and magazines. Divya is an active public speaker and has also served as a migration policy consultant for government and civil society organisations. She can be reached at: divya.balan@flame.edu.in. She also contributed to the ORCAxWICCI Special Issue "Building the Future of EU-India Strategic Partnership: Between Trade, Technology, Security and China."