Eerishika Pankaj

Eerishika Pankaj is an Editorial Assistant to the Series Editor for the Routledge Series on Think Asia and has previously been employed as a Research Associate in Bengaluru. She has also worked as a Research Intern with the Delhi Policy Group (DPG). Ms. Pankaj has been selected as a Young Leader in the 2020 cohort of the Pacific Forum's Young Leaders Program.

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