Dr Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhary — Senior Fellow, ORF — delivered on Human Migration Resulting from Coastal Inundation and Salinization: Likely Scenarios during the Professional Session III — Second NMF- KAS Symposium.

About the Speaker

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ph.D in International Relations, is Senior Fellow with the Neighbourhood Initiative, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata chapter. She is the Editor, ORF Bangla. She specialises in regional and sub-regional cooperation in South Asia, the Bay of Bengal region and the Indo-Pacific, energy politics, forced migration and women in conflict zones. She was the coordinator of the research project entitled “Proximity to Connectivity”.  She is also the recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Senior Media Fellowship (2007) and the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo (1998–99). Her recent publications include Caste and Partition in Bengal: The story of Dalit refugees,1946-61 (OUP, UK, 2022); BIMSTEC: Mapping Sub-regionalism in Asia (Co-edited Routledge:UK, 2022); New futures of BIMSTEC: connectivity, commerce and security (co-edited Routledge: UK, 2021), Reimagining BIMSTEC: Strengthening regional solidarity across the Bay of Bengal region (Co- edited/ ORF, New Delhi, 2021); India– Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity (co-edited/ Routledge, UK, 2020); Connecting Nations: India and Southeast Asia (coedited/ Primus, New Delhi, 2019).