Eerishika Pankaj is Head of Research and Operations Director at the Organisation for Research on China and Asia, New Delhi. She also serves as an Editorial and Research Assistant to the Series Editor of Routledge Studies on Think Asia, and a Young Leader in the 2020 cohort of the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program. She is an East Asian studies scholar who focuses on Chinese foreign and domestic policies, conflict studies in the Asian security landscape, Indian foreign policy focused on its neighbourhood outreach and the Indo-Pacific security architecture. Her academic background stems from FLAME University, Pune and University of London, UK. She is on twitter @eerishika.