Tara Varma was a senior policy fellow and head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations until December 2022, where she followed French foreign policy and European and Asian security developments.
She looked particularly at current French defence and security proposals in the European framework. She was also interested in Asian security, and the role Europeans could play in it, notably in the Indo-Pacific region. Varma joined ECFR in January 2015 as a coordinator and then deputy head of the Paris office. She previously worked and lived in Shanghai, Delhi and Paris. She graduated from Sciences Po Lille and SOAS in London in International Relations, with a focus on Asian Politics and Indian and Chinese foreign policies.