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, Sweden. He is a Professor at the Department of Regional and Global Affairs at the University of Warsaw; and is a senior fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, the Netherlands. Dr Panda has testified to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the US Congress. As a Senior Expert on Indo-Pacific and China, Dr Panda leads a book 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 other edited works include 'Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping' (co-edited), 'Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific' (Routledge: 2021), 'Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in the 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-editor of 'The Future of Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond' (Routledge, 2021).