Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), which he helped establish in 2020. He previously held positions or affiliations with the Observer Research Foundation, Brookings India (now the Centre for Social and Economic Progress), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Brookings Institution, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, and the the Lowy Institute. Since 2006, he has also been a frequent contributor to the Indian media, including the Hindustan Times and Indian Express. He was educated at Macalester College and Georgetown University.