Vivek Mishra (India)

Vivek is Deputy Director of the Strategic Studies Programme at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India. His work focuses on the Americas, especially U.S. foreign policy, U.S. domestic politics, and America’s role in the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific, particularly its role in shaping South Asian security. His other interests include Indo-U.S. defence ties and great power competition.

Vivek was a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi; Assistant Professor (International Relations) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Kolkata, and Fulbright Nehru visiting scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace at Columbia University (2015-16).

He has a PhD and MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of American Maritime Strategy in the Indian Ocean Dominance, Diffusion, Adaptation (2026).