Dr Shristi Pukhrem is deputy director (academics and research) at the India Foundation. Her areas of research and interest cover India-Asean relations, Southeast Asia, the Act-East Policy and the Indo-Pacific. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Asean Studies Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She was also selected as one of the Canberra Fellows in March 2019 and participated in the Trilateral Canberra Fellowship held in Australia.