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Dhruva Jaishankar is the 2026 and inaugural recipient of the Dr Ram Sethi Fellowship.
Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation America (Opens in new window) (ORF America), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC, which he helped establish in 2020. In this capacity, he has also served as Vice President – Americas at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) since 2025 and is an ex officio member of ORF America's Board of Directors. He is the author of Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Opens in new window) (Penguin India, 2024), an introduction to India's international relations. He is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and a 2026 Senior Fellow with the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Mr Jaishankar was previously a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington, DC. From 2009 to 2012, he was Program Officer with the Asia Program at GMF. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi.
In 2015–16, Mr Jaishankar was a Visiting Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. He holds a BA in history and classics from Macalester College, and an MA in security studies from Georgetown University.
His commentary has appeared in Indian and international publications, including in print in Foreign Affairs, The Globe & Mail, The Hindu, Indian Express, India Today, Politico, The Straits Times, and The Times of India, and online for The Atlantic, BBC World, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, The New York Times, Project Syndicate, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post. He has also been featured in reports by Bloomberg, CNN International, The Economist, The Financial Times, National Public Radio, Time, and The Wall Street Journal.
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