People

ORF brings together leading and young experts from the government, academia, business and civil society circles across the world who provide high-quality research, recommendations and analysis on a wide range of policy matters.

Rahil Miya Shaikh

Rahil Miya Shaikh is Lead, Graphics and Design, at ORF’s Mumbai centre and designs special reports, infographics, social media creatives, collaterals and branding for events, and podcasts. Read more ►

Rajan Gupta

Dr. Rajan Gupta is a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Laboratory fellow. Read more ►

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

Dr Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan is the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSST) at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.  Dr Rajagopalan was the Technical Advisor to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Prevention of Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) (July 2018-July 2019).  She was also a Non-Resident Indo-Pacific Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre from April-December 2020.  As a senior Asia defence writer for The Diplomat, she writes a weekly column on Asian strategic issues. Read more ►

Raju Karjigi

Raju Karjigi currently works as the Executive Assistant to the President. His research interests include EU-India relations and the internationalisation of higher education. Read more ►

Rakesh Kumar Sinha

Mr. Rakesh kumar has done PGDCA (Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Application) from CMC, Delhi Centre and CIC(certificate in Computing) from IGNOU, Delhi Centre. Read more ►

Rakhahari Chatterji

Professor in Political Science, Calcutta University (Retired 2008). Formerly Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University; Visiting Fellow in Political Science and Associate, Committee on South Asian Studies, University of Chicago; Visiting Fellow in Political Science at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and University of Virginia (Charlottesville); Emeritus Fellow, UGC. Read more ►

Ramanath Jha

Dr. Ramanath Jha is Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai. Read more ►

Rasheed Kidwai

Rasheed Kidwai is Visiting Fellow at Observer Research Foundation. He tracks politics and governance in India. Read more ►

Renita D’souza

Renita D’Souza is a PhD in Economics and a Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai, under the Inclusive Growth and SDGs programme. Her research focus is on development economics including environmental and development finance, sustainability issues such as poverty, climate change, resource efficiency and also the Indian economy. Read more ►

Rohit Bansal

Rohit is an alum of Harvard Business School and St Stephen’s College. He is a British Chevening scholar and has undertaken short professional programmes at University of Westminster, The Times Centre for Media Studies, and The European Journalism Centre, Maastricht. Read more ►