Based in Singapore for the last 15 years, Dr Parama Sinha Palit is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She was a Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) Fellow with the Sandia National Laboratories, the US Department of Energy in 2021 and a Consultant with the CRDF Global, USA in 2022. She specializes in foreign policy, diplomacy and international relations. Her latest book, New Media and Public Diplomacy: Political Communication in India, the United States and China was published by Routledge early this year. She is also the author of Analyzing China’s Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indian Initiatives, published in 2017 by SAGE. Earlier, Parama was also an affiliated Researcher with the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University. Additionally, she has worked with the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and the United Services Institution, New Delhi, India and also had a brief stint with the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Academic Visitor. Proficient in English, Hindi, Bengali and possessing strong functional knowledge of Mandarin, she has also been an external examiner for leading universities like the JNU and Jindal School of International Affairs. Parama has also delivered several invited guest lectures including briefings for the US State Department.

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