Jagannath Panda

Prof. Jagannath Panda is the head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He is also the executive editor for ISDP. In addition to his primary appointment at ISDP, Dr. Panda is a professor at the Department of Regional and Global Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is also the director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS) and a senior fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in the Netherlands.

Panda has testified to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at the U.S. Congress on “China and South Asia.” As a senior expert on China, East Asia, and Indo-Pacific affairs, Panda’s current research focuses on India’s relations with major Indo-Pacific powers (China, Japan, South Korea, the EU), China-India Relations, China and NATO, and the EU in Indo-Pacific.

He is the series editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. Panda is a contributing editor for The National Interest (Washington DC) and an author at The Diplomat. He is an advisor to the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), and is also the member of the Editorial Board of various international journals such as the Journal of Asian Public Policy (JAPP: Routledge) and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis (KIDA).