Professor Alka Acharya is the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She recently superannuated from the Centre for East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies) School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where she taught courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to the Masters and M.Phil students and guided doctoral research since 1993. She was the Chairperson of the Centre from December 2022 to March 2025.  From April 2012 to March 2017, she was on deputation as Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. She is the joint editor of the book Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She was Editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly journal China Report (New Delhi) from 2005-2013. She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012). She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008.  She regularly delivers lectures in the Professional Courses for Foreign Diplomats organized by the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi and contributes to the current affairs debates and writings on Chinese politics and foreign policy and India-China Relations in various domestic and international media platforms. Her recent work is an edited volume titled Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). Her current research focuses on India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation and the Chinese strategic response to the post-cold war Asian regional architecture. This is informed by her long-standing uninterrupted participation since 2001, in a Track Two Trilateral Academic Conference involving three institutes from Delhi, Beijing and Moscow, with the conferences held annually by rotation in the three capitals.