Esha Banerji is currently a Research Assistant at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, where she is affiliated with the China Centre. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations, with a specialization in Defence and National Security, from Savitribai Phule Pune University. She is a 2025 Yerevan Dialogue Young Fellow, conferred by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, and a recipient of the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. She has also served as an EU-India Young Leaders Exchange Fellow under the European Union’s Policy and Outreach Partnership (EUPOP) in India.

Esha has presented research at several prestigious national and international forums, including the Belgrade Security Conference (2022), the Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (2023), and the Closing the Gap: Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives Conference (2023). She has also participated in the 2023 DCAF Young Faces Initiative and the UK PONI Introduction to Nuclear Policy Workshop at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Her primary research interests lie in the field of international security, with a particular focus on Chinese security developments and their implications for the wider region. She is fluent in English, Hindi, and Bengali, with limited working proficiency in Mandarin.