Arjun Phillips is Program Manager with Voluntary Action Network India (VANI), an apex body of voluntary development organisations. At VANI, he works on external environment of civil society that comes to include analysis of regulatory regimes for civil society organisations and their capacity building, amplifying narrative of the sector, South-South cooperation and global development issues related to increasing the space for civil society participation in multilateral forums. Recent research initiatives include ‘Financing Sustainable Development: Civil Society Perspective on Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’, ‘India’s Civil Society Engagement Strategy for C20’, ‘India’s Development Cooperation with ASEAN: Civil Society Perspective and Advancing Sustainable Development through SDG 17’.