I am a Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a British Academy Innovation Fellow at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. My work revolves around global order, liberal internationalism and its discontents in a post-Western world, and the nature of political elites in global politics. My regional expertise lies in India and the EU.

My monograph, Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) narrates the birth, everyday life, and fracturing of a Western-dominated order from its margins by interrogating the sociology of the Indian Foreign Service from pre-Independence to 2022.

I have also written on the impact of Hindu nationalism on the Indian Foreign Service for International Affairs and on the social hierarchies of Indian diplomacy and world-making for the European Journal of International Relations.

Prior to joining LSE, I was a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford.

I hold a doctorate as well as an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where I studied under Professors Andrew Hurrell, Kate Sullivan de Estrada, and Kalypso Nicolaidis.

Originally from Helsinki, I have lived and worked in London, Oxford, New Delhi, Bangalore, Brussels, Washington DC, and Berlin. Along the way, I have been affiliated with the British Parliament, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin (WZB), and Amnesty International.