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S. Paul Kapur is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. From 2020-2021, Kapur served on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, working on issues related to South and Central Asia, Indo-Pacific strategy, and U.S.-India relations. Previously, he taught at Claremont McKenna College, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests include the international security environment in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific, nuclear weapons proliferation, deterrence, and Islamist militancy. Kapur is author of Jihad as Grand Strategy: Islamist Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State (Oxford University Press, 2016); Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2007); and co-author of India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in leading journals such as International Security, Security Studies, Asian Survey, Washington Quarterly, and in a variety of edited volumes. Kapur also manages consultancy and engagement projects for the U.S. Department of Defense. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. from Amherst College.

Saahil Parekh Programme Lead Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW)

Sabarish Elango Programme Associate Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW)

Saberi Mallick is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation

Non-resident fellow at ORF.

Sahil Deo is also the co-founder of CPC Analytics, a policy consultancy firm in Pune and Berlin. His key areas of interest are public policy, computational social science, governance, technology and explainable AI. As a part of CPC, he has consulted leading private and public sector organizations such as Siemens, Mitsubishi Materials, the World Health Organization and GIZ (German International Cooperation). He has also worked on a European Union project in Morocco & Egypt, which aimed to create financially viable models for investment in the renewable energy sector. As a part of Civic Consulting, he was a part of the team studying household indebtedness in member countries for the European Commission. Sahil has a Doctorate in Governance and is a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. He has completed his undergraduate in computer engineering from the University of Pune, India and Ecoles des Mines, France.

Saipriya Salla Program Associate Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

Sakthivel Selvaraj is Director Health Economics Financing and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) New Delhi. He is currently engaged in research teaching and advocacy in the area of health systems and specifically healthcare financing and access to medicines. He was a Takemi Fellow (Post-Doctoral) at the Harvard School of Public Health Boston and a Fulbright Scholar in 2006-07. Hehas a PhD in Health Economics (1996-2001) from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

Saleemul Huq is Director at International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Bangladesh.

Sam Neufeld is a project manager at the Open Data Working Group co-hosted by the International Innovation Corp.

Samahita Phul is a Junior Consultant at the Institute of Economic Growth Delhi. Her main areas of research are macroeconomics and monetary economics. She is currently pursuing PhD in Economics from Centre of International Trade and Development Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

Samar Jai Singh Jaswal is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation.

Dr Sameer Patil is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation. 

His work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, including cybersecurity. In addition, he looks at the geopolitics of emerging technologies and their impact on warfare.

Sameer has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India, and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.

Sameer has a PhD and MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has authored Securing India in the Cyber Era (Routledge, 2022), and co-edited two books, The Making of a Global Bharat, with Prof Harsh V Pant (Har-Anand, 2024) and Moving Forward EU-India Relations: The Significance of the Security Dialogues (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017). 

Samira Sawlani is a journalist writer and analyst with a focus on East Africa.A holder of an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) she has previously worked in the humanitarian aid sector.Her work has been published in a range of publications including Al Jazeera The Guardian Mail and Guardian and African Arguments.

Dr. Samson Samuel Ogallah is the Senior Climate and Landscape Specialist for Africa at Solidaridad Network. Prior to joining Solidaridad Ogallah was the Head of Programmes at the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and rose to the capacity of Acting Secretary General. He also previously worked with West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) as Zonal Network Coordinator and Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST) among others. Ogallah also lectured at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. He has over 19 years of work experience. Ogallah is a Development Expert a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and Fellow Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC).Dr. Ogallah is a seasoned sustainability professional with extensive international experience and a broad depth of environment energy development and climate systems knowledge. Ogallah has held impressive full time and consulting positions in different countries across Africa.Dr. Ogallah has authored and co-authored several publications including articles technical reports book chapters and journals and widely travelled with speaking and presentation roles at international events.Dr. Ogallah holds a Bachelor of Technology in Biochemistry and Advanced Diploma in Public Administration from Federal University of Technology Yola: Masters degree in Development Studies from The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD.) in Climate Change and Adaptation from the University of Nairobi.

Samuel Bashfield is a defence researcher on the Australia India Institutes Defence Program. Sams research interests include Indo-Pacific security defence and foreign policy Indo-Pacific security architecture maritime security nuclear issues strategic implications of the rise of China the rules-based order and technology governance. He is also a PhD candidate at the Australian National Universitys National Security College.

Samuel Christopher Hill Senior Economist Prospects Group World Bank

Samuel Doveri Vesterbye is Managing Director of the European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) an EU funded independent think-tank based in Brussels with staff in Belgium Turkey and Central Asia. Doveri Vesterbye is an expert on EU-Turkey relations EU-Central-Asia relations and EU neighbourhood and foreign policy including supply-chain geo-economics due diligence trade energy security information theory and media consumption. He has written numerous policy-briefs data-driven analysis and book chapters including Palgrave Macmillan's Managing Security Threats along the EU's Eastern Flank. Doveri Vesterbye regularly advises the European Parliament European External Action Service and EU Member States on foreign policy data collection and new methodologies.

Samuel Neufeld is an international venture capitalist and advocate for public interest technologies.

Sanjay has spent over two and a half decades in the midst of global events. For Sanjay: A journalist is where the story is.He is the former Managing Editor of NDTV Worldwide. Sanjay lives in Gurgaon with his kids his dogs. He loves gardening football and a good laugh.

Sanjay Byalal is the Co-founder of Exponent Energy.

Sanjay Pulipaka is a Senior Fellow at the Delhi Policy Group. He was a Pavate Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a former Fulbright Fellow in the US.

Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia has core skills in institutional analysis, energy and economic regulation and public financial management backed by eight years of project management experience (2005 to 2013) in governance and policy support with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) practice of the World Bank in Africa. Subsequently, he worked as a consultant for World Bank governance projects in India and most recently in electricity reform in Myanmar and Energy Transition in India.

He was the founder Secretary of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Government of India, in 1999. During three years of consultancy with TERI he provided technical assistance to the newly corporatized utility GRIDCO to submit its first Tariff Application to the Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission under the World Bank and DFID assisted Orissa Electricity Reform Project.

In the Government of India, he was in the Ministry of Disinvestment, Department of Economic Affairs and in the Ministry of Commerce. He has ten years of experience in industrial and rural development, district, and municipal administration, and was Secretary, Finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which was his home cadre in the Indian Administrative Service.

He has a master’s in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York; a post graduate diploma in financial management from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, and a master’s in history from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

He is affiliated with the Observer Research Foundation as an Advisor since 2014.

He hosts a Blog - https://ahlu-india.com/

Select Publications

"From Lattus to Lasers" Realising India's Electricity Potential" 2022. TERI Alumini Association & Shakti Foundation, New Delhi.

“Co-authored “Sustainable Urban Networks for Dynamic and Resilient (SUNDAR) India”. 2022. RTI International

“Valuing our common future” September 30,2022 orfonline.org

“Glasgow 2021 – Reward aggressive carbon mitigation” Asian Age, August 24, 2021.

Sankalp Gurjar is an Assistant Professor at the Department ofGeopolitics and International Relations Manipal Academy of Higher Education Udupi India. He works on International Relations of the Indo-Pacific Great Power Politics and the Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region and is the author ofThe Superpowers Playground: Djibouti and Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific in the 21st Century(Routledge: 2023).