Chietigj Bajpaee has worked with several public policy think tanks and political risk consultancies in Europe, the United States and Asia, including the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, IHS Global Insight and Control Risks. He has also worked in the Political Analysis team at Statoil and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and Vivekananda International Foundation think tanks in New Delhi, India. He obtained his Masters' degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and completed his undergraduate studies in Economics and Political Science at Wesleyan University and the University of Oxford. He is currently completing a doctorate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.