Dr. Indrani Talukdar is a Senior Research Consultant at Chintan Research Foundation. Her focus area of work is Eurasia covering Russia, the Baltics, Caucasus and the neighbouring areas. She will also be focusing on the geopolitics of Turkey and its foreign policy. Apart from these specific areas, her interest also lies in International Relation studies, Security studies, Conflict Resolution and Peace studies. Before this, Dr. Talukdar was a Faculty at Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she helped in the training of the Indian Foreign Service Officer Trainees and the other officers of MEA. Dr. Talukdar has also worked at the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi as a Research Fellow.