Sumant Kumar Swain is a Deputy Director of Eurasian Foundation, New Delhi. Dr. Swain, a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was also assigned as an Executive Editor of Eurasian Report and a Former Post Doctoral Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has expertise in Central Asia and Russian political system, foreign policies and strategic interests, CIS and India energy security, health and development issues. He has edited Contemporary Kazakhstan: The Way Ahead (2009), Contemporary Odisha: Realities and Vision (2011), Naxal Movement: An Ideological Conflict (2011), Clean Energy Options and Nuclear Safety: An Indian Perspective (2012), and Emerging Odisha: Problems and Prospects (2014) alongwith the writing of many research papers. He has visited twice (2007, 2010) the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy Of Sciences, Moscow as a Research Fellow in different assignments under the Indo-Russian Cultural Exchange Programme by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. He was also a recipient of the General Fellowship from ICSSR for his study on Indo-Russian Relations: The Issue of Energy Security. He is associated with many social research organisations and government departments for health and social research activities in various capacities. Email: sumanta.swain@gmail.com