Dr. Sandip Kumar MISHRA is Associate Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Before joining JNU, he worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi for more than twelve years. He is also Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi. He writes a monthly column named East Asia Compass at the IPCS website and another column to the Korea Times newspaper.

He completed his Master degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University and obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university. He studied Korean Language in Korea in 2006 and 2010 at the Yonsei University and Sogang University. He has been Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Sejong Institute, Korea National Defense University, Northeast Asia History Foundation, Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum, Institute for Far East Studies, Kyungnam University, , and Korean Institute for International Economic Policy. 

He has published several articles in Indian and East Asian academic journals along with book chapters and contributed opinion articles to newspapers such as Korea Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Financial Express, Pioneer, Tribune, and Statesman. 

He is interested in North Korean Nuclear Issue, International Relations of East Asia, East Asian Security, Asia-Pacific Security etc.