Sriparna Pathak is a Professor of China Studies, and the founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University. She is a Senior Fellow at the Jindal India Institute. She teaches courses on Foreign Policy of China as well as Theories of International Relations. Her previous associations cover Gauhati University, the Ministry of External Affairs, Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research in New Delhi. She is a recipient of the CITW Community Fund from Taipei’s Doublethink Lab, and of the Joint Fellowship from India’s Ministry of Human Resources Development and the China Scholarship Council, People’s Republic of China.