Dr. Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden, and a Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands. He is also the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia, a Taylor & Francis book publishing outlet, and is a Contributing Editor for The National Interest in Washington, DC. Dr. Panda is on the Board of Advisors of BRICS+ Thinking, London, and an Advisory Board Member of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), Bratislava.