Mallika Devi is a Consultant working with the Economy Vertical at the Centre for Contemporary China Studies (CCCS), Ministry of External Affairs. She has submitted her Ph.D. thesis at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. Previously, she taught as an assistant professor on a guest basis in the same department. In 2016, she was awarded the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and Chinese Government Scholarship (CGS) to advance language skills.