Eerishika Pankaj

Eerishika Pankaj is Head of Research at and the Operations Director for Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA), a New Delhi based think-tank. She is also an Editorial and Research Assistant to the Series Editor for Routledge Series on Think Asia. She has previously worked with think tanks based both in New Delhi and Bengaluru. Ms. Pankaj is a Young Leader in the 2020 cohort of the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program and is also a Commissioning Editor with E-International Relations for their Political Economy section. She has published internationally and nationally on Chinese domestic politics, Asian security, the Indo-Pacific and Indian foreign policy with her pieces appearing in publications like Pacific Forum, ISDP (Sweden), The Geopolitical Monitor, Lowy Institute's 'The Interpretor', Journal of Indian Ocean Studies (JIOS) and more. She has also co-authored a chapter in a Routledge publication focused on Xi Jinping's foreign policy overtures vis-a-vis the United States. Ms. Pankaj can be reached @eerishika on Twitter.