Baisali Mohanty

Baisali Mohanty (born 5 August 1994) is an international diplomat and United Nations official, author, Indian classical dancer and analyst of foreign and public policy. She is a regular contributor on foreign policy and strategic affairs to several prestigious international publications including American business magazine Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Diplomat and openDemocracy, London.

She is the founder of Oxford Odissi Centre that is involved in promotion and training of Odissi dance at University of Oxford and other leading institutions in the United Kingdom.

She has been ALC Global Fellow for the year 2015–16 affiliated to University of Oxford.

In 2022, she was appointed as Special Envoy to Romania to coordinate evacuation from the war-hit Ukraine.