Prerna Bountra, Deputy Director, International Relations. Prerna leads Ananta’s work on the United States and climate diplomacy. She curates Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues for the Centre and has been the lead curator of the India US Forum since 2018. Her research interests are U.S. domestic and foreign policy, India-US bilateral relations, the US-China-India triangle, great power rivalries, the Indo-Pacific and the geopolitics of energy. She is a sociology honours graduate from Hindu College, University of Delhi; Journalism post graduate from Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai; and has a post graduate diploma in International law & diplomacy from the Indian Society of International Law. She follows Hindi cinema with a passion, watches many sports but plays none, and is known to arm wrestle people who trivialize pop culture.