Veda Vaidyanathan is part of the tenth cohort of Fung Global Fellows at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies for the 2022-23 academic year and specializes in Asia-Africa interactions. As a visiting associate fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in New Delhi and an associate at the Harvard University Asia Center, she brings a comparative perspective to her work, examining Chinese and Indian engagements in Africa. During her Ph.D. at the University of Mumbai, she was a doctoral fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and a visiting fellow at Peking University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI). Her analysis and op-eds have been published in The Washington Post, African Arguments, The Hindu, South African Journal of International Affairs and findings presented in various global conferences and podcasts.