Mr. Kalpit Mankikar

Mr. Kalpit A. Mankikar is a Fellow with the Strategic Studies Program at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His research focuses on China, specifically looking at its rise and domestic politics. Mr. Mankikar has written extensively for the Hindustan Times, Economic Times, Foreign Affairs, International Business Times, Foreign Policy, Times of India, NDTV, The Economic Times, Swarajya Magazine, among others. He was selected for the Kautilya Fellowship in 2020, and for the ‘Learning to Lead: Leadership development’ from the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2019. He is also a 2015 Reuters Fellow, which he bagged the fellowship for ‘Editorial Judgment’ training in London.