Associate Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, ORF   

Premesha Saha is an Associate Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. Her research focuses on Southeast Asia, East Asia and the South Pacific — spanning the Eastern Indian Ocean.

Premesha’s other research interests include Indonesia’s maritime strategy, the emerging dynamics of the Indo-Pacific region, India and Southeast Asia, India’s Act East Policy, Asia-Pacific multilateralism.

Premesha has also published a chapter titled ‘The Genesis of the Scarborough Shoal Dispute between the Philippines and China’ in Prof. Manmohini Kaul and Dr. Anushree Chakraborty (edited) India’s Look East to Act East Policy: Re-examining the emerging issues and partnerships in Indo-Pacific; New Delhi: Pentagon Press.

Her PhD thesis is titled, ‘Indonesia’s Maritime Strategy in the Indian Ocean.’ She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as newspapers like Maritime Affairs, The Indonesia Quarterly and The Jakarta Post.