Germany and India: Together through uncertain times?

Priyanka Chaturvedi is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. She is the Deputy Leader and National Spokesperson of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray). She has been a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology since 2024 and of the Consultative Committee on External Affairs since 2020. She is a regular on television channels debating on various issues in Indian politics.

Erik Kurzweil has been Ambassador and Director for Indo-Pacific Policy, South Asia and Afghanistan at the Federal Foreign Office since January 2023. After studying in Berlin and Paris, he joined the diplomatic service in 1999. He has worked in Bucharest, New Delhi, Washington and Kabul, among other places, and headed the Crisis Response Centre in Berlin. From 2019 to 2022, he was responsible for international relations at the Saxon State Chancellery.

Ambika Vishwanath is the Founder and Director of the Kubernein Initiative, an Indian policy advisory and research think tank. Her work primarily focuses on domestic and international water security and its intersection with climate change, urban transformation, and foreign policy. She is also currently a DFAT Maitri Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University, developing climate and security partnerships between India and Australia.

Julia Ganter is Programme Director International Affairs at Körber-Stiftung, where she is responsible for the foundation's regional focus on Asia, the annual foreign policy publication and survey "The Berlin Pulse" and the recently initiated Körber Emerging Middle Powers Initiative.