Assistant Professor, Director, Centre for Northeast Asian Studies
B.A. (Dayanidhi Maharaja Degree Science College, Odisha);
M.A. (O.P. Jindal Global University);
Ph.D. (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Dr. Manoj Kumar Panigrahi is currently an Assistant Professor and co-Director of the Centre for Northeast Asia Studies, in Jindal School of International Affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University. He is also a Non-Residential Research Fellow at Taiwan NextGen Foundation, Taipei.
He teaches courses on Taiwanese History and Politics, Cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China, East Asian Politics, and Peace-making in Ethnic Conflicts. His recent publication includes a monograph published in titled, “Taiwan-China Conundrum: What Can be India’s Policy Trajectories?” (October 2023) and a co-edited book titled, “Drifts and Dynamics: Russia’s Ukraine War and Northeast Asia” (August 2022). He regularly contribute articles in national and international media.
In 2024, he was selected as a SUSI Fellow by the USA State Department to study US Foreign Policy. He has also received the Best Scholarship Recipient Student award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education Scholarship (2016-2020) because of his passion for sharing Indian culture at the grassroots level in over 100 schools delivering more than 300 lectures during his Doctoral studies.