Dr. Sanjay Kumar Pradhan completed his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and awarded with Centrally Sponsored Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Council of Social Science Research (Government of India) during his Ph. D. programme. Before joining this University, he served as Junior Project Fellow in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (New Delhi) and Assistant Professor in Political Science in the Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce division of Mody Institute of Technology & Science (Rajasthan, India). With research and teaching experience of six years, he has, till date, 20 publications in various refereed and Peer Reviewed national and international journals of repute such as World Affairs, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Asian Studies, Asian Profile and Journal of Peace Studies. Moreover, some of his research papers are under consideration by different renowned journals like India Review (Routledge) and Economic & Political Weekly. Two of his books, namely, Indian Diaspora and Energy Politics are in preparation stage. Apart from this, he has participated and presented research papers on international relations in various international seminars/conferences at different platforms.

Dr Pradhan has keen interest and great inclination in the areas of Theory of International Relations, International Political Economy, Peace & Conflict, Foreign Policy, Indian Diaspora, Problems and Issues of Africa and Energy Politics.