Dr. Jagannath Panda is Head of the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Sweden. He is also Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Director for Europe-Asia Cooperation at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS), Japan.

Dr. Panda leads a Books Series with Routledge and is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia. He is the author of the book India-China Relations (Routledge: 2017) and China’s Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition (Pentagon Press: 2010). Dr. Panda’s recent edited works are: "Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping (co-edited), Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific (Routledge: 2021); Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025 (KW Publishing Ltd. 2019); The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics: Status Security at Stake (Routledge, 2020); and (co-edited) The Future of Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond (Routledge, 2021).