The conversation is led by Shruti Pandalai, the inaugural Lowy Institute India Chair, and features Dhruva Jaishankar, the inaugural Dr Ram Sethi Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Executive Director of Observer Research Foundation America.
Shruti Pandalai is the inaugural India Chair at the Lowy Institute. Specialising in Indian foreign and security policy, her research focuses on Indo-Pacific geopolitics, great power competition, and the strategic complexities of the India–China relationship in the realm of information operations. She was previously a Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India’s leading security think tank, under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence. She has contributed to high-level projects from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for India’s National Security Council Secretariat, Ministry of External Affairs, and Department of Defence, and participated in Track 1.5 and Track II dialogues.
Dhruva Jaishankar is the inaugural Dr Ram Sethi Fellow at the Lowy Institute. He is also the Executive Director of the US Initiative at Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Previously, he was a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. His research examines India’s role in the international system and the effects of global developments on India’s politics, economics, and society, with a particular focus on India’s relations with the United States, Asia and the Indo-Pacific, and Europe.
Source – Lowy Institute, 30 July 2026.
