2025 Great Decisions Conference – Speakers & Presenters
Great Decisions Conference: India’s Rising Influence
Thursday, April 24 – 9:45 AM Central Time
Keynote: Dr. Satu Limaye
Vice President, East-West Center
Dr. Satu Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington, D.C. He created and directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. Dr. Limaye serves as a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). A graduate of Georgetown University, he received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. and has been recognized as a Henry R. Luce Scholar (Henry Luce Foundation) and Abe Fellow (Japan Foundation, Social Science Research Council, & American Council of Learned Societies).
Dr. Limaye publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations.
Anjuli Cameron
Chief Executive Officer, SEWA-AIFW
Anjuli Mishra Cameron is the Chief Executive Officer of SEWA-AIFW, where she provides strategic direction and oversees daily operations to advance the organization’s mission of total family wellness for the South Asian community. SEWA-AIFW empowers the South Asian community, focusing on vulnerable individuals, by ensuring access to healthcare and mental health services, fostering economic development, offering critical family violence interventions, and building social supports for elders, youth, and families. Her extensive background in community-based research within state government and academia, coupled with nearly two decades of community engagement, uniquely positions her to address the complex challenges facing South Asians and underserved communities. Previously, as Research Director for the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, Anjuli led statewide coalitions such as the Asian and Pacific Islander Complete Count Committee and the Afghan Evacuee Community Roundtable, advocated for legislative policies, and published original research. Her commitment extends to numerous boards and advisory bodies, including the Metropolitan Council, representing District 8 communities. Anjuli holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Carleton College and a master’s degree in biomedical sciences from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medical Science.
Edmund Downie
Researcher and Analyst at Princeton University
Edmund Downie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He studies how to overcome political and financial obstacles to the energy transition in the developing world, using a mix of case studies, (India, China, Vietnam) and energy-systems modeling. He is a co-author of the Guide to Chinese Climate Policy 2022 (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) and has written in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Fortune, and Barron’s. He served as a Fulbright Scholar at Yunnan University in China (2017-18) and a Yale University Gordon Grand Fellow at the Center for Policy Research (Delhi) and the Center for Studies in International Relations and Development (Kolkata) (2014-15). He received an MPhil in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar (2017) and participates in a variety of Track II dialogues and subnational exchanges around U.S.-China climate cooperation.
Dr. Raymond Kuo
Director & Senior Political Scientist at RAND
Dr. Raymond Kuo is a political scientist with the RAND Corporation. He is an expert on international security, order, and East Asia. He published two books in 2021: “Following the Leader” (Stanford University Press) on military alliances and international order and “Contests of Initiative” (George Mason University-Westphalia Press) on Chinese maritime coercion. He has also written on arms sales, unmanned warfare, Taiwan, Ukraine, the laws of war, and evolution. Previously, Dr. Kuo was a tenure-track professor at Fordham University and the University at Albany, SUNY. He has also worked for the U. N., the National Democratic Institute, and the Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan), among others. Dr. Kuo hold a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Aashraya Seth
Founder of Impact91 and Humphrey International Fellow
Aashraya Seth is a mid-career Fulbright Fellow at the UMN’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, a policy specialist at the Minnesota Senate, a member of the Minnesota Menstrual Equity Coalition, HeForShe Fellow for U.N. Women, and the Founder of Impact91 and Happy Periods, national non-profits working on menstrual equity, girls’ education and gender justice in India. He studied Physics and Information Systems, and is trained in public policy, international development and leadership through fellowships at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Korean Development Institute, United Nations, and HSF Germany.