Deepak Kumar Nayak joined the Institute in April 2014. Currently he is involved in research and documentation of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) and insurgency in Northeast of India. He was associated with the Institute earlier between June 2010 and December 2012. He has completed his M. Phil degree in “Globalization and the Question of Justice” from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and M.A in Centre for Political Studies from JNU, New Delhi.