Beyond the NZ-India Free Trade Agreement: What comes next?

The Asia New Zealand Foundation and the Auckland Business Chamber invites you to join leading Indian foreign policy expert Dhruva Jaishankar for a timely conversation on what comes next in the New Zealand–India relationship.

Dhruva Jaishankar is executive director of the Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC, which he helped establish in 2020. He is also vice president – Americas at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

His commentary has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Globe & Mail, The Hindu, Indian Express, India Today, Politico, The Straits Times and The Times of India, The Atlantic, BBC World, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, The New York Times, Project Syndicate, War on the Rocks and The Washington Post.

Mr Jaishankar was previously a fellow in foreign policy studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was a Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) in Washington, DC. From 2009 to 2012, he was a programme officer with the Asia Program at GMF. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and as a news writer and reporter for CNN-IBN television in New Delhi.

Mr Jaishankar is the author of Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Penguin India, 2024), an introduction to India’s international relations, and his research has appeared in numerous book chapters, reports and journals. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and classics from Macalester College and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University