GlobalCauvery Ganapathy, Non-Resident Fellow
Dr. Cauvery Ganapathy is an International Relations analyst and a strategic risk assessment consultant. Her research focuses primarily on energy security, as part of which her work explores the interrelated domains of politics of energy transitions, cooperative and strategic frameworks in the field of nuclear energy, and the leveraging of resources.
Cauvery has been a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship to the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on the final part of her thesis at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL). She has earned her PhD and Masters in International Relations from Jadavpur University, India and has a Bachelors in Political Science from St.Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India.
Cauvery has been a recipient of the Wrangler Pavate Fellowship to the University of Cambridge as Visiting Research Faculty at POLIS and a Senior Visiting Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She has previously been a Research Associate with the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) under the US Department of Defense with a focus on China in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific. She began her career as a Fellow and Program-Coordinator of Global India Foundation, Kolkata, and has presented and published at various national and international forums in that capacity and beyond. Cauvery has researched the origins of the Indian nuclear industry as an intern at the National Institute of Advanced Studies,(NIAS) Bangalore.
