Darshana M. Baruah is a foreign policy scholar with a focus on maritime security. She has spent time working on her research across think tanks in Delhi, Canberra, Tokyo, and Washington, DC. She directed the Indian Ocean Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and is currently Director (Geopolitics and Security) at the Australia India Institute, based in Sydney. She engages with policymakers and officials across the world on issues of maritime security, the Indo-Pacific, and geopolitics.
