Kate Sullivan de Estrada

Kate Sullivan de Estrada is Associate Professor in the International Relations of South Asia at the University of Oxford, a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College, and an Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Her research focuses on India's role and identity as a rising power, nuclear politics in South Asia, India's strategy in the Indo-Pacific, and Indian Ocean security. From March to December 2021 she served as Principal Research Analyst for India at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. She has delivered expert testimony on the UK-India relationship to two UK parliamentary inquiries, worked with the Indian Ocean Commission as an Oxford Policy Exchange Network Fellow, and continues to engage across Whitehall (and beyond) on the UK's policy towards India.