Dr. Sumant Kumar Swain is a Deputy Director of Eurasian Foundation and Executive Editor of Eurasian Report, New Delhi, India. He is a faculty at International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), New Delhi, India. Dr. Swain has been awarded Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a visiting Research Scholar (2007, 2010) to Institute of Oriental Studies under Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia under Indo-Russian Cultural Exchange Program by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, India. He has published one book, nine edited books and many research papers in different disciplines.