Aritra Banerjee is a senior journalist writing for Financial Express, where he focuses on defence, space, artificial intelligence, and the global energy transition. His work examines how emerging technologies, industrial policy, resilient supply chains, and strategic industries are reshaping national security, economic competitiveness, and geopolitics. He focuses on artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electronics manufacturing, critical minerals, quantum technologies, cyber capabilities, and other dual-use innovations that are redefining the relationship between technology, industry, and statecraft.
With over seven years of experience across print, broadcast, and digital media, Banerjee has built a career covering aerospace, defence, foreign policy, and strategic affairs. His work blends field reporting, policy research, and industry analysis, spanning major international aerospace and defence exhibitions across Europe and Asia as well as reporting from conflict-affected regions of Jammu and Kashmir, where he explored the intersection of security policy, governance, and civilian life. His analysis has appeared in media organisations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
He is the co-author of The Indian Navy @75: Reminiscing the Voyage. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations, Security and Strategy from the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, and has completed professional education in Grand Strategy from the King’s Institute of Applied Security Studies, King’s College London.
Outside work, he is pursuing alpine-style mountaineering and rock climbing.
Knows About
● Defence, Global Security and Strategic Affairs
● Aerospace, Defence Industry and Military Modernisation
● Space Economy, Space Policy and Commercial Space
● Energy Transition, Strategic Infrastructure and Industrial Policy
● Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors and Strategic Technologies
● Critical Minerals, Advanced Manufacturing and Global Supply Chains
● Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and International Relations
● Foreign Policy, Strategy and Grand Strategy
● Technology Policy, Innovation and Dual-Use Technologies
● Security Governance, Conflict Studies and Strategic Competition
