Veda Vaidyanathan Email & Phone Number

Veda is a policy researcher trained in International Affairs who has spent the past decade examining developing economies in Asia and Africa. An Associate Fellow of the Foreign Policy team at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) in New Delhi, she is also affiliated to the Harvard University Asia Center and the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in New Delhi. Formerly a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University, a recipient of the ICS-Harvard Yenching Institute, and the Indian Council of Social Science Research Doctoral Fellowships, Veda is trained as a multi-disciplinary scholar who works on transregional issues. Over the past decade, her effort has been to work with universities, research institutes and Civil Society Organizations in Africa, to gather perspectives on Asian engagement across countries and sectors from the grassroots and produce evidence-based research. Research projects she has designed and led have examined investments in financial services and mining in Zimbabwe, agriculture in Zambia, infrastructure development in Tanzania and Kenya and manufacturing in Ghana and Ethiopia. She has contributed book chapters published by Routledge in London, World Society Foundation in Zurich, her analysis and Op-Ed's have been published in The Indian Express, The Washington Post, The Hindu, The Diplomat, African Arguments and the South African Journal of International Affairs. Veda has lectured at universities around the world including Australian National University, Boston College, Addis Ababa University, Peking University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and presented findings in various global conferences and podcasts, including to the European Commission in Brussels, the Ministry of External Affairs in India, and was the youngest member of the Indian delegation to the 17th Russia-India-China (RIC) academic trilateral in Beijing.