Sayantan Haldar

Sayantan Haldar is an Associate Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme.

At ORF, Sayantan’s work is focused on Maritime Studies. He is interested in questions on geopolitics, maritime security, and regionalism in the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic.

Sayantan holds a PhD in International Relations from South Asian University, New Delhi, following earlier studies in Political Science at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge, London). Some of Sayantan’s academic work has been published in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, International Affairs, Maritime Affairs, among others. He frequently writes opinion pieces in Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Telegraph, etc.