Ashok Swain

Ashok Swain
Ashok Swain
Born (1965-02-19) 19 February 1965 (age 59)
Odisha, India
NationalitySwedish
Alma materDelhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Known forResearch on Transboundary Water Sharing, climate change, and population migration, Writing about global politics and contemporary India

Ashok Swain is an Indian-born Swedish academic and public intellectual. He is a professor of peace and conflict research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.[1] In 2017, he was appointed as the UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation and became the first UNESCO Chair of Uppsala University.[2][3]

He's also the Head of the Department of Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He's the Director of the Research School for International Water Cooperation of Uppsala University & SIWI. Ashok Swain is also founding editor-in-chief of the journal 'Environment & Security' (Sage).[4]

Swain was an Associate Senior Fellow to the SIPRI Climate Change Risk Program. He was the founding director of Uppsala University's Center for Sustainable Development from 2008 to 2012.[5] He has been a Mac Arthur Fellow at the University of Chicago. Swain has held visiting fellowship at UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva. He has held visiting professorships at Stanford University, McGill University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Maryland, Tufts University, and the University of Natural Sciences and Life Sciences, Vienna.[6]

Swain writes a weekly column 'Right is Wrong' for Gulf News.[7] Swain has also written opinion articles in publications including The Daily Mail, Nikkei Asia, Quartz, The Conversation,[8] Business Standard, Outlook (India), Scroll India, The Express Tribune, The Wire (India), The Print, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),[9] DailyO, National Herald, Down to Earth, The Africa Report, Economic and Political Weekly, East Asia Forum, Fair Observer, Janta Ka Reporter, The Third Pole, and The Kochi Post.[10]

Swain is among the members of the Indian diaspora whose Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card has been canceled by the Government of India.[11] Swain is a speaker at the World Government Summit 2024 in Dubai.[12] Swain's Twitter account has been withheld in India since August 2023.[13][14]

  1. ^ "Ashok Swain - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ "First UNESCO Chair at Uppsala University - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Unescoprofessurer i Sverige " Svenska Unescorådet". www.unesco.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Environment and Security". 13 April 2022.
  5. ^ https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13052/6/eckerberg_k_et_al_161228.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "Professor Ashok Swain". sipri.org. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  7. ^ Swain, Ashok (6 February 2024). "UNRWA in crisis: The story behind funding suspension in Gaza". gulfnews.com. Gulf News. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  8. ^ Swain, Ashok (30 July 2020). "How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation". theconversation.com. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  9. ^ Hall, Natasha; Swain, Ashok (14 August 2023). "Water in a Multipolar World: China and the Issue of Water Management". csis.org. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Ashok Swain". muckrack.com. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  11. ^ Lalwani, Vijayta (12 February 2024). "How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Silence Critics In The Diaspora By Banning Them From India". article-14.com. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  12. ^ "Peace and Resilience: Can the World Be a Haven for All?". worldgovernmentsummit.org. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Post". twitter.com. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Post". twitter.com. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.