She previously taught International Relations and Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science, Dibrugarh University, Assam (India). She obtained her PhD from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been a Commonwealth Visiting Fellow at the International Policy Institute of King's College, London and received a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Fellowship with affiliation to the School of Advanced International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Her previous publications include Multiparty System in the Russian Federation: Problems and Prospects and a monograph on Human Rights. See less