Veda Vaidyanathan is part of the tenth cohort of Fung Global Fellows at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies for the 2022-23 academic year and specializes in Asia-Africa interactions. As a visiting associate fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in New Delhi and an associate at the Harvard University Asia Center, she brings a comparative perspective to her work, examining Chinese and Indian engagements in Africa. During her Ph.D. at the University of Mumbai, she was a doctoral fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and a visiting fellow at Peking University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI). Her analysis and op-eds have been published in The Washington Post, African Arguments, The Hindu, South African Journal of International Affairs and findings presented in various global conferences and podcasts.

The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). This seminar is also co-sponsored by the Fung Global Fellows Program at PIIRS.

This in-person event is open to the Princeton University community. Members of the public may watch the seminar over livestream at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/