Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda is an Indian-American writer and foreign affairs expert. He is the author of a forthcoming book on North Korea’s nuclear forces and strategy and has contributed to The Diplomat, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The Atlantic, and Politico magazine among other publications. Panda additionally writes a biweekly column for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. He is a senior editor at The Diplomat, a contributing editor at War on the Rocks, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.[1] Panda formerly worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.
His work covers geopolitics, international security, and economic issues across the broader Asia-Pacific region. Panda has written extensively on developments in South Asia, China, the Korean Peninsula, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In 2018, Panda detailed the location of a covert nuclear enrichment site in North Korea.[2][3] He has also written on nuclear weapons and strategic stability, including the consequences of Pakistan's pursuit of a nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise missile[4] and China’s development of a hypersonic boost glide weapon known as the DF-17.[5]
Panda is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
- ↑ "Ankit Panda". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- ↑ Diplomat, Ankit Panda, The. "Exclusive: Revealing Kangson, North Korea's First Covert Uranium Enrichment Site". The Diplomat. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ↑ "Revealed: North Korea's covert uranium enrichment site Kangson". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ↑ Hundley, Tom (2018-04-02). "India and Pakistan are building nuclear-armed submarines". Vox. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
- ↑ Diplomat, Ankit Panda, The. "Introducing the DF-17: China's Newly Tested Ballistic Missile Armed With a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle". The Diplomat. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
