Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is the president of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and Professor at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She was previously Reader in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge, founding Director of the Centre for Rising Powers, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. She works in the fields of international negotiations, the political economy of international trade, and rising powers. Narlikar is the daughter of journalist and author Aruna Narlikar and physicist Anant V. Narlikar. She is the granddaughter of physicist Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar.

Narlikar read history for her B.A. at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and graduated with a M.A. from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was subsequently educated at Balliol College Oxford, where she completed her M.Phil. and D.Phil. in International Relations. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College Oxford and has held academic positions in various universities including a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University, and an International Visiting Chair at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is the member of Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study and Warwick Commission on Multilateral Trade.