Looking for my next
opportunity
to make a change.
The feminist way.

Akanksha Khullar is currently serving as a Program Officer at The Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi where she is responsible for managing as well as strengthening the capacity of development assistance projects aided by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka. She previously served as a Visiting Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation, where her work focused on the intersection of policy advice and academic research on gender security issues, particularly in terms of identifying how women in different conflict contexts are being impacted; espousing for more women to be included in peace-making; and, addressing the inter-linked issues of peace, justice, governance, and security in South Asia. 

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Akanksha has also worked as an Assistant Manager, Ministry of Women and Child Development Desk at Invest India where she oversaw the designing of a gender data dashboard that communicates women and child specific data in a user-friendly digital format. Prior to this she was the Country Coordinator for India at the Women's Regional Network and a Researcher at the Centre for Internal and Regional Security with Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi.

 

Akanksha is an active writer and has authored various journal articles, book chapters, reports, and opinion pieces for several platforms globally. Some of her works have appeared in South China Morning Post, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Firstpost, The Toronto Star, The Diplomat, South Asian Voices, Deccan Herald, Asia Times, Modern Diplomacy, IPCS, and The Quint.

 

She holds a Masters of International Relations (Advanced) degree from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Science from the Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.