Dr Aparaajita Pandey is a part of the Amity Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies in the capacity of Assistant Professor – III. She began her career as a Research Intern at the Indian Council of World Affairs where she focused the Latin American region. She has a PhD titled, Dynamics of Energy Cooperation in South America Since 1990s from the Centre for Canadian, US, and Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. During her PhD, she was invited by the University of Anton de Kom, Paramaribo, Suriname to be a guest lecturer and conduct lectures on Foreign Policy Decision Making. Thereafter she also conducted her research in Trinidad and Tobago where she was facilitated by Petro Caribe. Her areas of interest are Energy, Energy Security, Geopolitics, and Foreign Policy. Dr Pandey is also a guest editor for the Journal of Peace and Security Studies and a visiting faculty at the Department of Latin American Studies, University of Kerala.
