Dhruva Jaishankar, SSP‘11
Executive Director, ORF America
SSP is perhaps the leading master's program in the world focused on defense and security policy. It's proved a rigorous and focused experience for those wanting to improve their understanding of national and international security, the role of history and emerging technologies, and analytical methods."
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. In this capacity, he has also served as Vice President - Americas at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) since 2025 and is an ex officio member of ORF America's Board of Directors. He is also the author of Vishwa Shastra: India and the World (Penguin India, 2024), an introduction to India's international relations.He also writes regularly for the Hindustan Times newspaper in India.
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.