Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Ph.D.

Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Ph.D. (Manu) is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Northeast Asian Studies at Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is also a Non-Residential Fellow at Taiwan NextGen Foundation, Taipei. He got his Ph.D. from the Asia-Pacific Studies program at National Chengchi University in Taipei. He calls himself a “Brownie.”  His first visit to Taiwan was in 2015 as an exchange student. He teaches about Taiwan history, politics, culture, Cross-Strait relations, and East Asian Politics. He is a recipient of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education Scholarship (2016-2020). He has a passion for sharing Indian culture and has been invited to above 100 schools across Taiwan, amounting to more than 300 lectures so far. He proudly claims he has built his own “101”. Through his experiences, he aims to work in the education sector and firmly believes that there is a vast scope of nurturing students in the rural schools of Taiwan. He enjoys eating local cuisine, including the scariest food for foreigners, “stinky tofu,” except for the century egg. He tweets at @Manukumaar. 

潘孟吉博士現任印度金爾德全球大學國際事務學院副教授、東北亞研究中心總監，也是台灣世代教育基金會的訪問研究員。他在國立政治大學取得亞太研究博士學位。他自稱「布朗尼」（Brownie）。2015 年作為交換學生第一次造訪台北。他教授台灣歷史、政治、兩岸關係和東亞政治。他是台灣教育部 2016-2020 年的獎學金得主。他熱衷分享印度文化，曾受邀至全台超過 100 所學校，發表過超過 300 次演講。他驕傲地稱自己已在台灣建立了自己的「101」。透過他的經驗，他志在教育工作，堅信能夠以更寬闊的視角培育台灣的偏鄉學生。他享受在地美食，包括對外國人來說最可怕的「臭豆腐」，但皮蛋除外。他的推特帳號：@Manukumaar。