Purvaja Modak

Purvaja Modak is a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative advising on the G20. She is also an invited member of the Indo Pacific Circle, a curated network of early and mid-career scholars working on emerging issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Prior to joining, Purvaja was the Program Manager for Business and Policy at the Asia Society India Centre. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow, International Relations – Geoeconomics at the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) and a Researcher for Geoeconomic Studies and the Manager of the Research Office at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a Mumbai based foreign policy think tank working at the intersection of business and foreign policy. She was also a fellow at the 2nd G20 Global Leadership Programme 2019, hosted by the Korean Development Institute (KDI) and the Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance.

Her research focuses on issues of global economic governance, international trade and finance, economic diplomacy and multilateral financial institutions. She holds a Masters degree in Economics (MA) from the University of Mumbai with a focus on international trade, finance and regional monetary arrangements and a Bachelors Degree in Economics (BA) from Jai Hind College, Mumbai.