Dr. Sriparna Pathak

Dr. Sriparna Pathak is a Professor of China Studies and the founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. She also serves as the Associate Director of the Jindal India Institute and teaches courses on the Foreign Policy of China and Theories of International Relations. In 2022, Dr. Pathak published a book titled “Drifts and Dynamics: Russia’s Ukraine War and Northeast Asia”. She has previously worked at Gauhati University, Don Bosco University, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation among others. She has also been invited by the European Union's External Action Services for multiple workshops on tracking foreign information manipulation and interference. Dr. Pathak is a recipient of the CITW Community Fund from Taipei’s Doublethink Lab as well as a joint fellowship from India’s Ministry of Human Resources Development and the China Scholarship Council for advanced Mandarin language study and research in Beijing between 2011 and 2013. She has been quoted in publications including The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, South China Morning Post and The Washington Post.