
Swasti Rao
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Global Initiatives, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Dr. Swasti Rao is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Global Initiatives at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She is a geopolitical expert Commentator and Author. She is currently Non- Resident Fellow at Eastern Circles, Paris and a Contributor to The Print. Dr. Swasti has worked at the prestigious Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses(MP-IDSA), India’s premier think tank under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence. At MP-IDSA, Swasti worked on projects for the Ministry for External Affairs and the Ministry of Defence on European geopolitics and geo-economics. Her research project at MP-IDSA has been on Conflicts in Europe amidst Shifting Power Structures and Europe’s Indo-Pacific outreach.