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Indian Council
of World Affairs

Dr. Bindulakshami Pattadath
Associate Professor, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, School of
Development Studies, TISS, Mumbai

Dr. Bindhulakshmi Pattadath is Associate Professor at the
Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai. Her research interests are in the area of gender
studies, labour, transnational migration, health and disability. Prior
to joining TISS as a faculty in 2009, Bindhulakshmi was a Post-doctoral
researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (Currently
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research), University of Amsterdam,
and engaged in a research programme ‘Illegal but licit: transnational
flows and permissive polities in Asia”. Bindhulakshmi has many years of
experience in doing ethnographic fieldwork in United Arab Emirates and in
India to understand the transnational mobility of Indian migrant women
domestic workers. She has published widely on gendered migration,
transnational labour, and domestic work.

Ms. Akanksha Khullar
Researcher, Centre for Internal and Regional Security at Institute of Peace
and Conflict Studies, New Delhi

Ms. Akanksha Khullar is a Researcher at the Centre for
Internal and Regional Security at Institute of Peace and Conflict
Studies. Her research focuses on gender issues, particularly
on understanding the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and
identifying how national, regional and international organisations
contribute in shaping the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.
Akanksha is currently working on mapping out India’s engagement with
UNSCR 1325 and analysing how women in India are participating in conflict-
management and peacekeeping. Prior to joining IPCS, she has interned with
several think tanks, international organisations and government agencies.
Akanksha holds a Masters of International Relations (Advanced) degree from
the Australian National University and an undergraduate degree in Political
Science from the University of Delhi.

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