Professor Kate Sullivan de Estrada
University of Oxford. network co-director
Expertise on
Countries: India, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific
Policy Areas & Themes: Defence & Security, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Indo-Pacific, Institutions, Maritime Security, Multilateralism, Strategic Partnerships
Bio
Kate Sullivan de Estrada is Associate Professor in the International Relations of South Asia at the University of Oxford and a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College. Her research focuses on India's role and identity as a rising power, nuclear politics in South Asia, India's strategy in the Indo-Pacific, and Indian Ocean security. From March to December 2021 she served as Principal Research Analyst for India at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. She has delivered expert testimony on the UK-India relationship to two UK parliamentary inquiries, worked with the Indian Ocean Commission as an Oxford Policy Exchange Network Fellow, and regularly engages in UK, EU, US and Indian Ocean policy spaces on India and on maritime security in the Indian Ocean.
special research expertise on
Indian Ocean Security
Indo-Pacific
Rising Powers
Multilateralism
Nuclear Politics
Identity & Indian Foreign Policy
Engagement experience includes
2021: 9-month secondment as Principal Analyst, India at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2019 – ongoing: Member of the South Asia Advisory Board of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2018 – ongoing: Associate Fellow, South and Central Asian Defence, Strategy and Diplomacy, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Read a sample of Kate’s research outputs
India and order transition in the Indo-Pacific: resisting the Quad as a ‘security community, The Pacific Review, 2023
India and the Quad: When a “Weak Link” Is Powerful, The National Bureau of Asian Research, 30 October 2023
US retreat, Indian reform: multilateralism under Trump and Modi, India Review, 2023
