Jhanvi Tripathi is an Associate Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation’s (ORF) Geoeconomics Programme. She served as the coordinator for the Think20 India secretariat during India’s G20 presidency in 2023. She currently serves on the International Advisory Board Secretariat of Think20 Brasil.
Her research includes international trade policy, including new trade issues like digital trade policy, and gender and trade, besides World Trade Organization reform, and NTMs. She also has a keen interest in conflict resolution and negotiation.
Prior to this, she was an associate researcher on international trade policy for the Confederation of Indian Industry, where she worked on day-to-day government advisory on India’s FTA negotiations with the EU and the RCEP, in addition to WTO policy positions. She published multiple papers on Africa-India trade, global trade architecture, and trilateral cooperation in international trade.
She holds a BA(H) in political science and diploma in conflict transformation and peacebuilding from the University of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College and an MSc in Comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Commentaries
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