Biography

Prof. Sreeradha Datta teaches International Affairs, at O.P Jindal Global University presently. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow with Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Earlier she was Senior Fellow and Centre head, Neighbourhood Studies Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. She has also served as director, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Government of India, and has held fellowships with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, Government of India. She holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is also the Director of, Centre for Analytical Research and Engagement, a research centre within Jindal University
(https://jgu.edu.in/jsia/research/centre-for-analytical-research-and-engagement-care)

Her research interests include area studies-South Asia and India’s extended neighbourhood, Southeast Asia and Bay of Bengal and the Indo-Pacific. She has undertaken thematic studies on regionalism and cross-border issues, bilateral ties, security studies.  

She has authored and edited over ten books including her latest edited volume, Bangladesh on a New Journey Moving Beyond Regional Identity.(2024, Bloomsbury) Her other books on Bangladesh include co-edited, Bangladesh at 50: Development and Challenges, (2022,Orient Blackswan), India-Bangladesh Bonhomie at 50: 1971 and the Present, (2022, Vivekananda International Foundation), Caretaking Democracy: Political Process in Bangladesh, 2006-08, (2009, IDSA/Magnum Publication) Bangladesh: A Fragile Democracy, (2002,IDSA /Shipra Publication)

Her authored books also include Act East Policy and Northeast India (2021, Vitasta Publishing), The Northeast Complexities and its Determinants (2000, IDSA/ Shipra Publication). Her other edited works include BIMSTEC: The Journey and Way Ahead (2021 Pentagon Publishing) and edited, Changing Security Dynamics in South East Asia. (2008, IDSA/Magnun Books). 

She has also published over 170 articles in journals, edited volumes, newspapers and academic websites.  She continues to participate in various bilateral dialogues and is on Journal editorial committees.