About Us

Vivek Mishra is Deputy Director, Strategic Studies Program & Fellow, Americas, with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme in New Delhi. His research interests include America in the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific and Asia-Pacific regions, particularly the role of the US in security in South Asia, Indo-US defence relations, and the Indian defence sector. He also studies security and geopolitical aspects of Indian foreign policy closely.

He is also Visiting Faculty at Symbiosis School of International Studies, Symbiosis University Pune & Visiting Faculty, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar, Gujrat.

Dr. Mishra has served as the Deputy Director (Hony), Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, Bhubaneswar and been a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War & Peace, School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University. Besides, he was South Asian Voices Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center, Washington DC and was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship by the Osmania University Centre for International Programmes to study US-India-China relations in the Indian Ocean.

In the past he has worked as Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi; Assistant Professor, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata;, Research Associate, Indicia Research and Advisory, New Delhi; Research Fellow, Centre for Joint Warfare Studies, Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence and in Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi.

He has published one single authored; two co-authored books and one co-edited volume. He has over 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 14 book chapters. Dr. Mishra’s articles have appeared in The Hindu, The Indian Express, Deccan Herald, The Telegraph, The Pioneer, The Diplomat, The National Interest and Huffington Post

Current Position

·         Visiting Faculty, Symbiosis School of International Studies, Pune.

·         Visiting Faculty, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar

Past Position(s)

·         Research Fellow, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi

·         Assistant Professor, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata

·         South Asian Voices Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center, US

·         Research Associate, Indicia Research and Advisory, New Delhi

·         Research Fellow, Centre for Joint Warfare Studies, Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence

·         Associate Editor, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal

·         Visiting Faculty, FLAME University.

·         Deputy Director, Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies.

Education

·         PhD International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University