Dr Premesha Saha is a Senior Policy Fellow at Asia Society Australia. Her research focuses on emerging trends in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and regional security architecture. Her expertise includes minilateral cooperative frameworks, great power competition, India’s role and policy in the Indo-Pacific. Her work also explores India–Australia relations, India’s Act East Policy, and India’s broader engagement with Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania, and maritime security in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.