Akhil Ramesh
Director of India Program and Economic Statecraft Initiative, Pacific Forum
Akhil Ramesh leads the India program at Pacific Forum. He oversees all research, analysis, and programming on India.
Concurrently, he engages in research on the increasing intersection of economic, trade, and national security policy making in the Indo-Pacific. As an extension, he is working toward expanding the portfolio of economic statecraft related programming at Pacific Forum.
Akhil holds an M.S. in global economics from New York University and a certificate in business and geopolitics from HEC Paris business school. Prior to joining Pacific Forum, he worked with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in southern India. Prior to that, based out of New York City, Akhil worked as a project coordinator and lead of the mapping project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative at the EastWest Institute.
Akhil is a columnist with The Hill and his analysis has been widely featured in publications such as Bloomberg and published across global and regional journals such as Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Hindustan Times, and Japan Times.
