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Ajay Bisaria<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Ajay Bisaria is a corporate strategic advisor, guiding global businesses on geopolitics and regulations. He advises OMERS in India and several companies in private equity, fintech, health tech, and more. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Earlier\u00a0Ajay Bisaria<\/b>\u00a0was an Indian diplomat with a diplomatic career spanning 35 years, Bisaria has held key positions in some of India\u2019s most critical economic and security relationships. He served as the High Commissioner of India to Canada from March 2020 to June 2022, and prior to that, he was the High Commissioner of India to Pakistan from December 2017 to February 2020. Bisaria has also represented India at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and served in various capacities in Indian embassies in Berlin and Moscow. Within the Ministry of External Affairs, the Department of Commerce, and the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he played a significant role, including being a key aide to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1999 to 2004.Bisaria is a specialist in India\u2019s Eurasia policy, having worked extensively with Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia. Before his diplomatic service, he worked with\u00a0American Express Bank\u00a0and\u00a0Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited\u00a0in Delhi.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”333″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–large-hard” css=”” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758465188536{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758652481096{margin-bottom: 64px !important;}”]\n

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[vc_row el_id=”getting-here”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759042598062{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Authors [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1759042622634{padding-bottom: 120px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Ajay Bisaria [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Ajay Bisaria is a corporate strategic advisor, guiding global businesses on geopolitics and regulations. He advises OMERS in India and several companies in private equity, fintech, health tech, and more. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Earlier\u00a0Ajay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}