Gauri Khandekar

Gauri Khandekar is a Researcher in the Environment and Sustainability Cluster at the Brussels School of Governance. Previously, she served as Deputy Director and Director Europe at the Global Relations Forum (Brussels), Coordinator of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s Energy and Urban Transformation Project, and Project Leader for the EU Delegation to India’s Think Tanks Twinning Project. From 2010 to 2015, she was Head of the Asia Programme at FRIDE (Brussels and Madrid). In 2012, she was the Resident Handa Research Fellow at the CSIS Pacific Forum in Honolulu, where she researched the US’ Asia rebalance policy and its implications for the EU.

She has also worked at the European Commission (DG External Relations), the European Parliament, the G20 and the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Gauri spent three years with a development NGO in India and initiated a large-scale development programme in southern Uganda in 2013. Gauri holds two Master’s degrees in European Studies, with distinction, from Sciences Po Lille and the College of Europe, Bruges.