Priya Vijaykumar Poojary is a Lecturer at the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES) - Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. She holds double master’s – MA European Studies from MCES, MAHE and another Master’s in International Relations from Metropolitan University Prague (MUP), Prague. Her teaching and research interest include European politics, policymaking in the European Union (EU), EU’s foreign policy, India-EU relations, migration governance, and Higher Education Regionalism. She has co-edited an edited volume titled Contours of India-EU Engagements: Multiplicity of Experiences published by Manipal Universal Press (MUP) along with Dr Neeta Inamdar and Dr Praveen Shetty. She has been a visiting fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and a beneficiary of Erasmus+ teaching fellowship at University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. She is also the Coordinator of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI).