Ms Sharon Susan Koshy

Sharon is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, working on temporary migration, gender and development. She holds an MPhil from the University of Hyderabad and a Master's from the Central University of Kerala. Before doing her PhD, Sharon worked as a Research Associate with the Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi, where she led the International Relations vertical and specialised in Indo-Pacific and nontraditional security challenges. Sharon is passionate about gender dimensions of public and foreign policy.

She produces and hosts the Southbound podcast series where she discusses gender mainstreaming from a South global perspective with experts in domains such as foreign policy, international relations, foreign trade, climate change, etc. During her research experience at IIT-Madras and the University of Hyderabad, she worked with international communities of Tibetan refugees and Egyptian feminist CSOs, to gather primary and secondary data. She also has extensive field experience with Tibetans in exile in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. Sharon has taken part in several roundtable conferences and panel discussions at national and regional levels organised by universities and consulates. She is a member of the Indo-Pacific Circle and also contributes regularly to newspapers like The Daily Guardian, Live Mint, and Financial Express.