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INDIA–NEPAL RELATIONS: REIMAGINING THE PARTNERSHIP
Reimagining South Asia in a Plurilateral World Order
India, China and the QUAD
Singapore’s Economic Success & Anti-Corruption Model: Can It Be Adapted in Nepal?
Maria Tomak Ukrainian human rights expert, researcher, expert of the Truth Hounds NGO. Co-organizer of the Crimea Global Conference. Co-founder and Head of the Board at the Media Initiative for Human Rights. Having started from journalism and volunteering for the Euromaidan SOS initiative during Euromaidan, Maria moved on to actively participate in documenting human rights violations in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s seizure of Crimea and delivering information on them both in Ukrainian society and the international community. In the summer of 2014, Maria started dealing with the cases of Ukrainian citizens arrested by Russian Federation on political motives by Russia, and further was a coordinator of the LetMyPeopleGo campaign to free them, including by participating in the court hearing in Chechnya as one of the witness of the defence of Ukrainian prisoners. She was a co-founder of the NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights (now she is a Head of the Board of MIHR) which is focused on journalism investigations into human rights violations related to the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Maria is a co-author of several documentaries dedicated to the bloodiest days on Euromaidan and the beginning of the Russian invasion in eastern Ukraine. In 2017 she received a national human rights prize for her personal contribution to the defending of human rights in Ukraine. She has significant experience in international advocacy at the level of international intergovernmental organizations and particular governments. In January 2022, Maria shifted from NGO to the governmental sector. Till December 2024, she served as the head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea dealing with the international promotion of deoccupation of Crimea, in particular aiming at establishing connections with the Global South countries. In 2025 Maria is back to civil society. Jointly with the team of the Truth Hounds NGO she is focusing on researching the recruitment of the foreign fighters from the Global South by Russia as well as international advocacy activities as the co-organizer of the Crimea Global Conference.
Nepalis in the Russian Army: Mercenaries or Victims of Human Traffficking?
Iulia Hau explores migration, identity, and social integration in Europe and Latin America through her work. She began her reporting career in Cartagena, Colombia, where she lived among a group of Venezuelan street dancers and documented their migration stories. Since then, she has covered the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Romania and reported on the lives of migrant communities across the country. For the past two years, she has been dedicated to documenting the Sri Lankan community in Romania, investigating labor abuses and recruitment agency scams, as well as the largely unseen nightlife they are quietly creating on the margins of society.
Nepali Workers to Romania: Between Opportunity and Exploitation
How The World Sees Balen’s Leadership in Nepal
Prof. Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA). He is also the Executive Editor for Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP). In addition to his primary appointment at ISDP, Dr. Panda is a Professor at the Department of Regional and Global Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is also the Director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS); and a Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in the Netherlands. He is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Prof. Panda is a Contributing Editor for The National Interest (Washington DC) and an Author at The Diplomat. He is an Advisor to the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), and is also the Member of the Editorial Board of various international journals such as the Journal of Asian Public Policy (JAPP: Routledge) and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis (KIDA). He was a fellow at India’s premier think-tank, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (now, Manohar Parrikar-IDSA) for one and half-decade [2006-2022], and received his Ph.D. degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) in 2006-07. He has been a Korea Foundation Fellow (2018) and Japan Foundation Fellow (2018). Prof. Panda has written for The National Interest, China Brief (Jamestown Foundation), The Diplomat, Nikkei Asia, 38 North (Stimson Centre), Asia Times, The Japan Times, The Japan Today, The Korea Times, The Korean Herald, The Diplomat, Chaillot Papers (EUISS), South Asian Voices (Stimson Centre), The Asan Forum, East Asia Forum, PacNet Commentary, The Strategist (ASPI), Korea On Point, Asia-Pacific Bulletin, The Independence (UK), The Strait Times (Singapore), The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Tribune and The Pioneer among many other international forums.
China’s Free Ride in the Strait of Hormuz: Why and How?
Shockwaves from West Asia: Assessing the Iran War’s Impact on South Asia
Remarks by Capt. Dr. Alok Bansal, Executive Vice President, India Foundation at Nepal-India Think Tank Forum
Capt. Dr. Alok Bansal, Executive Vice President, India Foundation.
Remarks by VADM Sanjay Jasjit Singh (retd.), Director General, United Service Institution of India at Nepal India Think Tank Forum
VADM Sanjay Jasjit Singh (retd.), Director General, United Service Institution of India
Remarks by Bibek Dhoj Thapa at Nepal-India Think Forum at SESSION III - Building Resilient Nepal-India Relations: The Role of Think Tanks, Youth and Media
Bibek Dhoj Thapa, Program Coordinator and Research Associate, NIICE
Delivering Remarks at the Nepal-India Think Tank Forum, Session III- Building Resilient Nepal-India Relations: The Role of Think Tanks, Youth and Media
Amb. Pankaj Saran, Convenor, NatStrat
Speakers Amb. Pankaj Saran, Convenor, NatStrat. Bibek Dhoj Thapa, Program Coordinator and Research Associate, NIICE. Prof. Sangeeta Thapliyal, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr. Mrigendra Bahadur Karki, Executive Director, Center for Nepal and Asian Studies. #GenZ #Youth #Indian #Nepal #Media #ThinkTank #indiastudies
SESSION III Building Resilient Nepal-IndiaRelations: The Role of Think Tanks, Youth andMedia
Speakers Dr. Alok Bansal, Executive Vice President, India Foundation. Maj. Gen. Binoj Basnyat (Retd.), Political and Security Analyst. Dr. Gaurav Saini, Co-Founder, Council for Strategic and Defence Research. Anurag Acharya, Director, Policy Entrepreneurs Inc. Dr. Angana Guha Roy, Associate Director, Asian Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs. #Radicalism #Connectivity #disastermanagement #Terrorism #fakecurrency #intelligencesharing
SESSION II Transnational Threats, Connectivityand Economic Security in Nepal-India Relations
Speakers Sumitra Karki, Director, NIICE. Dr. Pramod Jaiswal, Research Director, NIICE. VADM Sanjay Jasjit Singh (retd.), Director General, United Service Institution of India #Nepal #India #agniveer #Security #gorkha #gorkharegiment #suryakiran #indianarmy #nepalarmy
SESSION I Nepal-India Security Cooperation:Convergence, Cooperation and Continuity
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Youth, Accountability and Nepal’s Future
H.E. Indra Mani Pandey is the 4th Secretary-General of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation). He attended the Foreign Service Programme at Oxford University (1998–99). He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1990 and is a career diplomat. He has also served as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva. He was the Ambassador of India to the Sultanate of Oman and allso served as Deputy Ambassador to France and Consul General in Guangzhou, China. Previously, he has been posted at Indian Missions in Cairo (Egypt), Damascus (Syria), Islamabad (Pakistan), and Kabul (Afghanistan), and worked in multiple divisions at India’s Ministry of External Affairs. #BIMSTEC #NonTraditional #Terrorism
Strengthening BIMSTEC’s Role in Countering Non-Traditional Threats - H.E. Indramani Pandey
SPEAKERS: 1. H.E. Indra Mani Pandey, SG, BIMSTEC - Keynote Speaker 2. Tun Myint, Senior Advisor, MISIS, Myanmar 3. Col. Nalin Herath RSP, Executive Director, SASSRI, Sri Lanka 4. Dr. Sreeradha Datta, Professor, O.P Jindal Global University, India 5. Dr. Pramod Jaiswal, Research Director, NIICE, Nepal 6. Dr. Segufta Hossain, Research Director, BIISS, Bangladesh 7. Dr. Lobzang Dorji, Butan Country Associate, DCAF 8. Seksan Anantasirikiat, Senior Researcher, International Studies Center, Thailand
Security Beyond Borders: Strengthening BIMSTEC’s Role in Countering Non-Traditional Threats
Svitlana Kovalchuk is the Executive Director of Yalta European Strategy (YES). She joined YES in 2016 from German Development Cooperation (GIZ). There, from September 2014 to April 2016, Dr. Kovalchuk was the Director of the Project for Strengthening Capacities of the Ukrainian Emergency Services. Numerous projects were implemented under her leadership, including the construction of seven IDP settlements and the establishment of the humanitarian aid to the cities in Eastern Ukraine. Previously, in 2010-2014, Dr. Kovalchuk was a Deputy Director of Advisory Services and Capacity Development for EURO 2012 project of GIZ. Her responsibilities were marketing and tourism development of four host cities in Ukraine. Dr. Kovalchuk began her professional career at the National Television Company of Ukraine in 2005. There, she headed the Ukrainian delegation at the Eurovision Young Musicians in Vienna, Austria in 2008, and later at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv in 2009. Dr. Kovalchuk holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institute for International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an MBA from the MBA International SIC Academy. Dr. Mridula Ghosh Dr. Mridula Ghosh is a Kyiv-based scholar of political science and international relations. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Taras Shev-chenko National University of Kyiv, where she also taught Indian Civilization and Hindi (1994–1996). She currently serves as a faculty member at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, teaching courses she has authored on Diplomacy and Foreign Policy. Dr. Ghosh is the Chair of the East European Development Institute (EEDI), which conducts policy research and advocacy on governance, human rights, and environmental issues. A multilingual researcher, she is also known for her scholarly translations of East European literature. Her work includes Ukraine Alpona, the first translation of Ukrainian poetry into Bengali, as well as Bengali translations of Lesya Ukrainka’s Forest Song, Geo Milev’s Septemvri, and selected works of Taras Shevchenko. Dr. Ghosh writes analytical columns for The Week (India) and other academic and policy platforms, focusing on Ukraine’s contemporary geopolitical and historical transformations. Maria Tomak Maria is Ukrainian human rights expert, researcher, advocacy expert of the Truth Hounds and Co-founder and Head of the Board at the Media Initiative for Human Rights. She is also the Co-organizer of the Crimea Global Conference. Having started from journalism and volunteering for the Euro-maidan SOS initiative during Euromaidan, Maria moved on to actively participate in documenting human rights violations in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s seizure of Crimea and delivering information on them both in Ukrainian society and the international community. In the summer of 2014, Maria started dealing with the cases of Ukrainian citizens arrested by Russian Federation on political motives by Russia, and further was a coordinator of the LetMyPeopleGo campaign to free them, including by participating in the court hearing in Chechnya as one of the witness of the defence of Ukrainian prisoners. Maria is a co-author of several documentaries. In 2017 she received a national human rights prize for her personal contribution to the defending of human rights in Ukraine. She has significant experience in international advocacy at the level of international intergovernmental organizations and particular governments. Till December 2024, she served as the head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea dealing with the international promotion of deoccupation of Crimea. In 2025 Maria with the team of the Truth Hounds researched about the recruitment of the foreign fighters from the Global South by Russia . Nataliya Gumenyuk Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in conflict reporting and human rights. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL), which promotes constructive discussion of complex social issues. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, PIJL, under Gumenyuk’s leadership, co-founded The Reckoning Project—an initiative documenting war crimes. In 2023, within the Connecting the Continents initiative, PIJL brought senior editors, public intellectuals, and journalists from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to Ukraine. As a foreign correspondent, Gumenyuk has reported from more than 50 countries. Her work has appeared in outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. She is the author of several documentaries and books, including The Lost Island: Tales from the Occupied Crimea (2020) and The Maidan Tahrir (2015), which examines developments after the Arab Spring. She also co-authored The Scariest Days of My Life: The Dispatches of The Reckoning Project (2023).
28 Point Peace Plan: Future of Ukraine and Implications for Europe’s Security
Tanuja Pandey is the Co-founder and Chairperson of Harin Nepal, an intersectional climate justice organization. She is a lawyer who earned her BALLB degree from National Law College, Nepal. Tanuja writes about the intersection of environmental justice with economic, political, and social justice perspectives. Her other areas of interest include energy and infrastructure, international relations, and GESI. AArnab Chaudhary is a Lawyer and dedicated advocate for Human Rights, indigenous, marginalised and underprivileged people’s rights issues and Social, Climate and Environmental Justice Movement. Arnab is a staunch supporter of preserving indigenous languages, knowledge, culture, and the rights of minority groups. Currently, he holds key positions in organisations such as a member of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council Nepal, Youth Council member of Global Homes for Indigenous People(GH4IP), Board Member at All in Foundation, Operation Director at Harin Nepal, Executive Member at Dang Society and Founder of Alawya Nepal (an organisation dedicated to movement lawyering). Arnab has been an active participant of the Gen Z movement and has been actively leading discussions on how to take this movement ahead. Anurag Acharya is the Director of Policy Entrepreneurs Inc. He has over a decade and half-long professional experience, working on issues related with governance and politics. His expertise and research interests include Nepali politics and governance, as well as South Asian geopolitics. Acharya is also a former journalist, who continues to write extensively for national and international publications. His recent works focus on Nepal’s sub-national political settlement and big power rivalry in South Asia, particularly exploring facets of infrastructure aid and soft power diplomacy.
From Streets to Ballots: The Gen Z Movement & Nepal’s Next Election
Rising Power Competition: Indian and Chinese Commercial Landscape in the Indo-Pacific
Maj Gen Purna Silwal (Retd.) PhD, joined the Nepali Army as Second Lieutenant in 1983 and retired from the rank of Major General in 2018. His key staff assignments include Aid de Camp to the Chief of the Army Staff, Situation Analyst at the National Security Council Secretariat, Situation Analyst in Principal Military Secretariat (Royal Palace), Chief Operations Officer (Army HQ), Military Secretary (Army HQ), and Principal Staff Officer at the Army headquarters. He had commanded Air Defense Battalion, Infantry Brigades, and Valley Division. His instructional assignment includes Chief Instructor and Commandant at NA Command and Staff College and Senior Instructor of the 1st Higher Command and Management Course at NA War College. He is a visiting lecturer in Army Command and Staff College, Army War College, Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, TU Armed Police Force, and Nepal Police. He served three years as a peacekeeper in UNIFIL, Lebanon and MONUC, DR Congo. And, also served as Military Advisor in the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations, New York (2008 to 2011). After his retirement, General Silwal was appointed by the Government of Nepal as a member of the High-Level National Security Policy Formulation Committee in 2019, and National Security Policy Action Plan Task Force in 2020. He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College of Nepal and Bangladesh, and National War College, USA. He holds Master’s degree in economics from Tribhuvan University, and MS in National Security Strategy from National Defense University, USA. He has received Ph.D. from Tribhuvan University on Nepal’s National Security. There are dozens of articles to his credit published in various English and Nepali National Dailies and Journals. Dr. Silwal is the author of a book entitled; Nepal’s Instability Conundrum: Navigating Political, Military, Economic and Diplomatic Landscape.
Gen Z Uprisings and Security Challenges for Nepal
Jeffrey Chan Wah Teck, S.C. read law at the then University of Singapore on a President's Scholarship, graduating in 1973 as the Gold Medallist of his class. He obtained his LL.M from Harvard University and completed the Advanced Management Programme at Wharton Business School. He held a wide range of appointments in the Singapore Legal Service before retiring in 2018. These included Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel; Assistant Registrar, Supreme Court; Registrar of the Appeals Board (Land Acquisition); Magistrate; State Coroner; Senior State Counsel and Director, Legal Services, Ministry of Defence. He was for many years Head of the Civil as well as the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers before being designated as the Deputy Solicitor-General. In the course of his career, he has held numerous appointments including Chairman of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and chair of several UNCITRAL Working Groups; Chief Negotiator for a number of international treaties, and delegation leader to numerous ASEAN, Commonwealth and other international forums. He was a Member of the San Remo Roundtable of Experts that produced the San Remo Manual on International Humanitarian Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. He was President of the Medico-Legal Society of Singapore and Vice-President of Singapore Red Cross. He was also President of the Rotary Club of Raffles City and was twice Assistant Governor of Rotary International District 3310. Chan is presently a Senior Director of TSMP Law Corporation, Singapore and an Adjunct Professor of the National University of Singapore where he teaches International Humanitarian Law. He is also Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as well as the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Additionally he is a Senior Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre. For his work in IHL, in 2024 he was conferred the Red Cross Service to Humanity Award, the highest Singapore Red Cross Award, by the President of Singapore.
Legal Responsibilities for Autonomous Weapons and Emerging Means and Methods of Armed Conflicts
Ambassador Anil Trigunayat is a Visiting Fellow at NIICE and Distinguished fellow at Vivekanand International Foundation. His core areas of interest and expertise are trade, investment and Economic Diplomacy and takes special interest in developments in Middle East, Africa and Russia. He is currently the President of MIICCIA Chamber of Commerce & Industry. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service, he has served in the Indian Missions in Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Mongolia, USA, Russia, Sweden and Nigeria, Libya and Jordan. In the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) he has worked in the Economic, West Asia and North Africa and Consular Divisions. He also served as Director General/Joint Secretary for the Gulf & Haj Divisions in the MEA, New Delhi. Thereafter, he worked as Deputy Chief of Mission in the rank of Ambassador in the Embassy of India, Moscow. Prior to his superannuation in May 2016, he served as Ambassador of India to Jordan and Libya and High Commissioner to Malta (June 2012 – May 2016). He is a post Graduate in Physics from the Agra/Kumaon University and also studied Russian History, Culture and Language at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a visiting fellow he also conducted research work on “WTO and Regional Trading Blocs” at the Oxford University. He is a member of the All India Management Association/Delhi Management Association as well as that of Oxford and Cambridge Society of India and the Association of Indian Diplomats (former Ambassadors). He is a Board Member of Peaceful Mind Foundation. He is the Honorary Member of the International Trade Council, Brussels and Honorary Adviser to BRICS Chamber of Commerce.
Saudi Arabia Pakistan Defence Pact: Implications for South Asia - Anil Trigunayat
Professor S.D. Muni S.D. Muni is Professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University. For nearly forty years, he taught, conducted and supervised research in International Relations and South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1974-2006), National University of Singapore (2008-2013), Banaras Hindu University (1985-86), and University of Rajasthan (1972-73). He served as India's Special Envoy to SE Asian countries on UNSC Reforms (2005) and represented India’s Minister of External Affairs at the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Paris Peace Conference, held in Phnom Penh, Kampuchea. He was also India’s Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1997-99). Prof. Muni was nominated to the first-ever constituted National Security Advisory Board of India during 1990-91. He was the founding executive member of the Regional Centre of Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and also served on the Executive Council of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India. In 2005, he was bestowed with 'Sri Lanka Ratna', Sri Lanka's highest national honour for a foreign national. The Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka, Colombo, offered him affiliation as Honorary Distinguished Fellow in 2016. Usha Kiran Timsina Usha Kiran Timsina is a central committee member of the CPN-UML and a graduate of sociology from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. She works on issues related to digital threats, misinformation, and hate speech in politics. A young leader who came to prominence during the UML’s 10th General Convention, Timsina has been an outspoken advocate for accountability, transparency, and reform within her party. She continues to highlight the importance of democratic values and timely elections in Nepal’s political landscape. Bibek Dhoj Thapa Bibek Dhoj Thapa is a Program Coordinator and Research Associate at NIICE. His research focuses on new technologies in international relations, Nepal’s neighbourhood studies, and security. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, China. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University.
The GenZ Uprising in Nepal: Causes, Consequences, and the Road Ahead
In Conversation with the Author: AI First Nation
From Colombo to Dhaka to Kathmandu: The Fault Lines of South Asia
Gabriel Weil is an Assistant Professor at Touro University Law Center and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI. He also serves on the boards of the Center for AI Policy and PIBBSS. His research focuses on the role of liability in mitigating catastrophic AI risk, and he regularly consults with legislators and other policymakers on AI policy matters. Before joining the Touro faculty, Professor Weil held several positions focused on climate change policy, including work for the Climate Leadership Council and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Professor Weil holds a J.D., cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, an LL.M. in environmental law, summa cum laude, from Pace University Elizabeth Haub School of Law, and a B.A. in political science, physics, and integrated science from Northwestern University.
Legal Risks of AI Gone Wrong: How Liability Can Prevent Catastrophe - Prof. Gabriel Weil
Terrorism in South Asia: Challenges to Regional Peace and Security: Session III
Terrorism in South Asia: Challenges to Regional Peace and Security: Session II
TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA: Challenges to Regional Peace and Security: Session I
siporah Fried is a distinguished expert in military strategy, net assessment, and future warfare analysis, with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of defense innovation and strategic planning. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Vice Chairman of the French Joint Chiefs of Staff, where she leads on defense innovation, emerging military technologies, French defense policies, and the war economy and industry. In her role, Ms. Fried conducts comprehensive assessments of global strategic environments and military capabilities, leads multidisciplinary teams to forecast future military scenarios, and develops strategies to counter emerging threats. She is also a key actor in international military cooperation, steering strategic dialogues between France and the United States, NATO, and other allies. Her notable achievements include establishing a wargaming capacity for the French Joint Staff, initiating NATO’s Wargaming Initiative (now a flagship NATO event), and piloting the Joint Staff’s AI task force contributing to France’s defense AI strategy. Previously, Ms. Fried was a senior auditor at the Cour des Comptes, where she specialized in budget oversight of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conducted major audits of the Foreign Affairs and Justice departments. She has also held senior positions in the French Navy Staff, serving as political advisor to the French Chief of Navy and leading strategic bilateral talks with the U.S., U.K., and Indian navies. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite (Chevalier) and the medal for voluntary service as a Navy Reserve Officer. A graduate of the prestigious École Nationale d’Administration (ENA, Senghor class — alongside President Emmanuel Macron), she also holds an MA in Political Science and a degree in Russian language and civilization from INALCO (Langues’O). Beyond her official duties, Ms. Fried is Editor-in-Chief of the ENA Alumni Review, President of the Club ENA-Navy, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut d’Études de Géopolitique Appliquée, and a member of the German Marshall Fund Strategic Committee.
French Approach to AI and Security Strategies - Tsiporah Fried
Governing AI in a Fractured World: Democracy, Diplomacy, and International Institutions
Ambassador Anil Trigunayat is a Visiting Fellow at NIICE. He specializes on International Relation and Diplomacy. His core areas of interest and expertise are trade, investment and Economic Diplomacy and takes special interest in developments in Middle East, Africa and Russia. He is currently the President of MIICCIA Chamber of Commerce & Industry. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service, he has served in the Indian Missions in Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Mongolia, USA, Russia, Sweden and Nigeria, Libya and Jordan. In the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) he has worked in the Economic, West Asia and North Africa and Consular Divisions. He also served as Director General/Joint Secretary for the Gulf & Haj Divisions in the MEA, New Delhi. Thereafter, he worked as Deputy Chief of Mission in the rank of Ambassador in the Embassy of India, Moscow. Prior to his superannuation in May 2016, he served as Ambassador of India to Jordan and Libya and High Commissioner to Malta (June 2012 – May 2016). He is a post Graduate in Physics from the Agra/Kumaon University and also studied Russian History, Culture and Language at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a visiting fellow he also conducted research work on “WTO and Regional Trading Blocs” at the Oxford University. He is a member of the All India Management Association/Delhi Management Association as well as that of Oxford and Cambridge Society of India and the Association of Indian Diplomats (former Ambassadors). He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation apart from being a Board Member of Peaceful Mind Foundation. He is the Honorary Member of the International Trade Council, Brussels and Honorary Adviser to BRICS Chamber of Commerce.
Iran-Israel Stuck in MAD Syndrome- Amb Anil Trigunayat
Public Diplomacy and Soft Power Projection in the Digital Age
Global Tech Diplomacy: Regulating AI in a Fragmented World
Balancing Public Perception with Strategic Realities in Nepal Amidst India-China Competition
Mohamed Uvais Mohamed Ali Sabry is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He served as Minister of External Affairs of the Government of Sri Lanka until September 2024. Throughout his legal career, Sabry held several significant positions, including serving as the Sri Lankan Consul General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and representing Sri Lanka at international forums such as the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2012. He was appointed as a President's Counsel in 2012, becoming one of the youngest to receive this honor. Sabry was appointed as a Member of Parliament from the national list of the Sri Lanka Podu-jana Peramuna (SLPP) in 2020. He has since held multiple key ministerial roles, including: Minister of Justice , Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Sri Lanka’s Economic Recovery and Foreign Policy: Balancing Growth and Geopolitics - M U M Ali Sabry
Ambassador Blake served for 31 years in the State Department in a wide range of leadership positions. From 2013 to 2016, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, where he focused on building stronger business and educational ties between the U.S. and Indonesia. In this role, he worked with the CEOs of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producers to develop a major sustainable palm oil initiative to reduce Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions. He also served as Senior Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to help conclude a Just Energy Transition Partnership with Indonesia in 2022. In 2009, he was nominated by President Obama to be Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, serving from 2009 to 2013, for which he was awarded the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award. From 2006 to 2009, he served concurrently as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission in India from 2003 to 2006, where he was named the worldwide DCM of the Year by the State Department. Ambassador Blake held a wide variety of key State Department positions as well, including Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs from 2001 to 2003, Deputy Executive Secretary for the Department of State from 2000 to 2001, and Senior Desk Officer responsible for economic and political relations with Turkey from 1998 to 2000. He has also served in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and Nigeria. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the U.S.-Indonesia Society, is a member of the board of the Asia Foundation, and serves on the Global Leadership Council of the World Resources Institute and the National Committee of the World Wildlife Fund. Ambassador Blake holds a BA from Harvard College, and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
The future of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy in the New Trump Administration - Robert O. Blake
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