Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). She is also an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College (University of Cambridge), and a non-resident Distinguished Fellow at the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne. Amrita served as the President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) from 2014 to 2024, and simultaneously held a full (W3) Professorship in International Relations at Hamburg University. Prior to moving to Germany, Amrita taught at the University of Cambridge, where she was a fully tenured Reader in International Political Economy (regularized to “Professor” under the university’s internationally aligned system).

She works in the fields of international negotiations, the political economy of international trade, and something termed: "rising powers". Narlikar is the daughter of an author: Aruna Narlikar, and physicist: Anant V. Narlikar. She is the granddaughter of physicist Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar.

Career
Amrita Narlikar was awarded her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University (Balliol College), on an Inlaks Scholarship and was then appointed to a junior research fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. She also has a master's degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a bachelor's degree in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Before moving to Hamburg, she held the position of reader in international political economy at the University of Cambridge and a fellowship at Darwin College. She was also a senior research associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014.

Publications
Amrita Narlikar has authored/edited twelve books. Her most recent book has been published by Penguin Random House:


 * Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat (co-authored)

Her previous books include:


 * Poverty Narratives in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, New York: CUP Cambridge University Press, 2020
 * Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata (co-authored), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
 * The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (co-edited), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
 * Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions (edited), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010

She has also published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, Global Policy, etc.

Policy Advice
The policy relevance of her research brings Amrita into frequent and close exchange with practitioners. She has authored several policy briefs — e.g. for Munich Security Times, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CIGI, Commonwealth Secretariat etc., and has had her expertise cited in a range of media outlets — e.g. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, Spiegel Online, Deutsche Welle, NDR, BBC, etc.