Kashish Parpiani is a foreign policy analyst with nearly a decade of experience spanning academic institutions, think-tanks, government, and the private sector.

He currently serves in the Chairman’s Office at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India. Previously, he held roles in the Americas (AMS) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India; the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India; and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS-NTU), Singapore.

Kashish is also part of the Corporate Leaders Program (2023-25) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), USA and the Network for Advanced Study of Technology Geopolitics (NAST) Fellowship (2025-26) at the Takshashila Institution, India.

Apart from publishing over 100 short- and long-form research papers across academic and media platforms, he is also the co-author of America and the Indo-Pacific: Trump and Beyond (Routledge, 2022), a book on US President Donald J. Trump's foreign policy (2017-21) towards India and the Indo-Pacific region at-large.