Parul Bakshi is Research Fellow at FSR Global, New Delhi, India, established by the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), European University Institute. She is also a Guest Lecturer at the Department for East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. She holds a PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and was a Special Research Student at the Graduate School of Public Policy of The University of Tokyo as a Japan Foundation Fellow 2021-22. She is the co-editor of the books 'Geographies of Exchange Between India and Japan' (2024) and 'India–Japan Relations @70: Building Beyond the Bilateral' (2022). Parul has also widely published in academic journals such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs, The Pacific Review, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, and the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, among others.