Eerishika Pankaj is the director of the New Delhi-based Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA), a think tank dedicated to decoding Chinese domestic politics and its impact on Beijing’s foreign policymaking. She convenes India’s leading China-focused dialogue, the Global Conference on New Sinology (GCNS), and was selected as an Emerging Quad Think Tank Leader under the US State Department’s Leaders Lead on Demand Program. Eerishika is the co-editor of the book, The Future of Indian Diplomacy: Exploring Multidisciplinary Lenses, and of the special issues on The Dalai Lama’s Succession: Strategic Realities of the Tibet Question as well as Building the Future of EU-India Strategic Partnership. She is an editorial and research assistant to the series editor for Routledge Series on Think Asia; a young leader in the 2020 cohort of the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program; and a council member of WICCI’s India-EU Business Council.
