Dhruva Jaishankar

Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation America, a public policy think tank in Washington DC, which he helped establish in 2020. He is a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute in Australia and a 2026 senior fellow with the Asia New Zealand Foundation. Mr. Jaishankar, who is the son of the current Minister of External Affairs of India, was previously a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He has also been a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Trilateral Commission, an IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategist, and a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group. He holds an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University. His commentary has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Globe & Mail, The Hindu, Indian Express, India Today, Politico, The Straits Times, and The Times of India and online for The Atlantic, BBC World, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, The New York Times, Project Syndicate, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post. He has also been featured in reports by Bloomberg, CNN International, The Economist, The Financial Times, National Public Radio, Time, and The Wall Street Journal.