FPRI Welcomes New Fellows

• May 19, 2026

Philadelphia, PA

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to welcome Jessica C. Liao, Prashanth Parameswaran, and Raghvendra Kumar as Fellows.

Jessica C. Liao is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at FPRI, an associate professor of Asian Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Asia Pacific Program. Previously, she was an associate professor of political science at North Carolina State University’s School of Public and International Affairs.

 

Prashanth Parameswaran is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at FPRI. Born and raised in Southeast Asia, he is also a senior columnist at The Diplomat, an advisor at the strategic consultancy BowerGroupAsia, founder of the weekly ASEAN Wonk newsletter, and a course instructor at the State Department and the Pentagon.

 

Raghvendra Kumar is a Non-Resident Fellow in FPRI’s Asia Program and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Relations and Peace Studies, Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar, India. His research lies at the intersection of geopolitics, geoeconomics, and security studies, with a focus on the strategic landscape of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). He examines India–China engagement in maritime Africa, the geopolitics of resource extraction, traditional and non-traditional security threats, and the evolving regional maritime security architecture.

For more information or media inquiries, please contact Leah Pedro at lpedro@fpri.org.