Shairee Malhotra is the 2020 South Asia Fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) and associate researcher at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) Brussels. A widely published international relations professional with a master's degree in international relations from Queen Mary University of London, Malhotra has several years of experience working in the global think tank sphere in India and Europe. She has also worked with the European External Action Service (EEAS), the official foreign policy arm of the European Union.