Dr Sanjay Kumar Pandey is a Professor at the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi. He served as the Chairperson of the Centre, and the Director of the Russia and Central Asian Area Studies Programme.

He teaches courses on Politics and Society, as well as Foreign Policy of Russia and the Central Asian States. He was L. M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge; Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge; and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Central Asia Forum, Cambridge. He was International Observer for the Parliamentary (Oliy Majlis) Election in Uzbekistan in December 2014 and for Presidential Election in Uzbekistan in December 2007, 2016 and 2021.

Some of his recent publications are: 
Pandey, S. K., “India-Russia Ties in Changing World: Re-defining Security Cooperation”, co-authored with Ankur Yadav, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, 19: (1-2), Jan-June, 2024,

New Delhi: Print Publication Pvt Ltd.; Pandey, S. K., “The Russia – Ukraine War: Impact on the Global South”, in Raj Kumar Sharma ed. Battleground Ukraine: The West versus Russia, published by NatStrat, New Delhi, April, 2024.

https://www.natstrat.org/articledetail/publications/the-russia-ukraine- war-impact-on-global-south-131.html India, Central Asia and SCO:

Prospects and Challenges in Renewing The Shanghai Spirit (ICWA 2022); “Russia and Ukraine:

United by History Divided by Geopolitics”, (co- authored), Journal of Parliamentary Affairs, Vol 12, Issue 1 & 2, pp.19 – 28, January – December 2020 (published in 2022); “What led to the Protests in Kazakhstan—and What They Mean for the Region” The Week, January 14, 2022,

https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/01/14/what-led-to-the-protests- in-kazakhstan-and-what-they-mean-for-the-region.html;
“Russia and Ukraine: Shared Past, Differing Perceptions and Geopolitics”,

The Week, January 24, 2022, https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/01/24/russia-and-ukraine-shared-past- differing-perceptions-and-geopolitics.html