Sushmita Sihwag is a Research Associate at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF).  She holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana.  Her research at the NMF focuses upon how India’s own maritime geostrategies are impacted by the maritime geostrategies of ASEAN and its member-States in the Indo-Pacific.  She has published an article reviewing the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, along with reviews of books on themes ranging from the evolving geopolitics of the Indian Ocean Region to supply chain resilience and ASEAN-India relations.  At the NMF, she has coordinated and presented at the 5^th NMF-Embassy of Vietnam Workshop on Holistic Maritime Security in November 2024 and the inaugural NMF-Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam seminar on “Promoting Maritime Security and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific” in March 2025.  She has also attended the UK Royal Navy’s EEZ Protection Officers Course in December 2024 and the 6^th Gujarat Maritime University Academy on Seabed Governance in March 2025.  She may be contacted at indopac6.nmf@gmail.com.

• India’s own maritime geostrategies within the Indo-Pacific in juxtaposition of the various
  maritime geostrategies of ASEAN and its member States.

• M.A. (Hons) in Liberal Studies, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana (2018)
• B.A. (Hons) in English, Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi
  (2016)

• Research Intern, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi (2024)
• Freelance Transcription, Nalanda Master’s Course, Tibet House, New Delhi (2017-21)
• Intern, GallerySKE, India Art Fair (2019)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana (2017-18)
• Volunteer, DISCOVER Education, AIESEC, Romania (2017)
• Copywriting Intern, J Walter Thompson, Gurugram (2015)

• Sihwag, Sushmita. “Homecoming of the Exile as a Cosmopolitan Tourist.” Paper presented
  at the XXI International Conference on “Revisiting Cosmopolitanism,” organised by the
  Forum on Contemporary Theory in collaboration with the International Lincoln Center for
  American Studies at Louisiana State University, Puri, Odisha, December 2018.
• Sihwag, Sushmita. “Memory, Narrativisation, and the Struggle for an ‘I’: Issues of Identity in
  the Tibetan Memoir.” Paper presented at the IX Annual Seminar on “The Enigma of Story:
  Lived Experience, Time and Narrative,” organised by the Balvant Parekh Centre for General
  Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda, Gujarat, March 2018.