Who’s Speaking

Our speaker Dr. Aleksei Zakharov for ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology 2025

Dr. Aleksei Zakharov

Dr. Aleksei Zakharov

Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Dr. Zakharov is a Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. His research focuses on the geopolitics and geo-economics of Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, with particular emphasis on Russia’s foreign policy towards South Asia and India-Russia relations. Previously, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at HSE University, Moscow, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), the Gateway House, the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), and the French Institute of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8.