Sharjeel Siddiqui is an M.Phil student at the National Defence University, Islamabad. He has been associated with multiple think tanks, including the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, where he was part of a governmental project to study the strategic and commercial reserves of oil and natural gas in Pakistan. He has been published on various national and news platforms. His research focuses on migration patterns, with a particular emphasis on socio-political and institutional factors shaping movement within and across South Asia.