Dr Navras Jaat Aafreedi is an Indo-Judaic Studies Scholar and a Social Activist, employed as Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Gautam Buddha University, Greater NOIDA, India. He is also the Founder and Secretary of the Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE), an NGO dedicated to the promotion of peace and interfaith amity through dialogue and understanding. He sits on the editorial boards of the refereed journals Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies and The Social Ion, on the review board of the Journal of South Asian Studies, and on the international advisory board of the Asian Jewish Life and the Jerusalem Press Club.

He has held fellowships at the University of Sydney and the Institute of Asian Studies, Australia; Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK; Tel Aviv University, Israel; and the Centre for Communication & Development Studies, Pune, India and his lectures have been well received in Australia, Israel, UK, USA and India. He has to his credit a number of publications which have been translated into German, Spanish, French and Russian, and press reports on his researches can be read in sixteen languages (European and Asian) on his blog navrasaafreedi.blogspot.com. One can read more about him heresites.google.com/site/aafreedi/home