Who We Are
Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of ORF America. He was previously Fellow at Brookings India and the Brookings Institution and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. More >>
Sharon Stirling is Chief Operating Officer at ORF America. She was previously COO of the BLK SHP Foundation and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund. More >>
Dr. Andreas Kuehn is Senior Fellow at ORF America. He was previously Senior Program Associate at the EastWest Institute, Cybersecurity Fellow at Stanford University, and Adjunct Researcher at the Rand Corporation. More >>
Anneleen Roggeman is Senior Program Manager at ORF America. She was previously Senior Program Associate at the EastWest Institute and part of the Secretariat of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. More >>
Dr. Anit Mukherjee is Senior Fellow at ORF America. He was previously Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development and Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi. More >>
Dr. Shayak Sengupta is a Fellow at ORF America. He was previously a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi, and a Fulbright-Nehru scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. More >>
Sadiq Amini is Program Manager, Outreach at ORF America. He was previously Political Assistant at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and worked at Afghanistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. More >>
Jeffrey D. Bean is Program Manager for Technology Policy and Editor for ORF America. He was previously Visiting Fellow at East-West Center in Washington and Editor for the Asia Policy Blog at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). More >>
Natalie Boyse is Program Manager, Global Programs at ORF America. Previously, she has served in various roles within the U.S. federal government, including at the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Defense (DOD). More >>
Medha Prasanna is a Junior Fellow and Program Assistant for Energy and Climate at ORF America. She was previously a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow at the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and an intern at the United Nations Information Center in Washington D.C. More>>
Ammar Nainar is Junior Fellow and Program Assistant at ORF America. He was previously an intern at the Brookings Institution, Carnegie India, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). More >>
Yasmin Goes is the Program Assistant at the Cyberspace Cooperation Initiative, where she provides administrative, event management, logistical, and research support, in particular for the Global Cyber Policy Dialogues project. More>>
Profiles of former ORF America staff, fellows, and affiliates can be found here.
Non-Resident and Visiting Fellows
Bruce McConnell
Bruce McConnell is Distinguished Fellow at ORF America. He was President and CEO of the EastWest Institute. From 2009 to 2013, McConnell served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he was Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity. More >>
Udaibir Das
Udaibir Das is a Distinguished Fellow at ORF America. He is a former central banker and a senior international financial policy expert. He has worked in different capacities at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Guyana, and the Reserve Bank of India. More >>
Terri Chapman
Terri Chapman is a Visiting Fellow at ORF America. She was previously a Visiting Fellow at ORF in New Delhi and a management consultant based in Malaysia. She is also a consultant for the World Bank. More >>