Patrick S.D. McCartney, who received his PhD in sociolinguistic and cultural economic anthropology from the Australian National University in 2016, is trained in a range of disciplines, including Indo-European linguistics, Indology, archaeology and cultural heritage management. His research has evolved to incorporate methods from computational social science and geospatial data visualisation. Patrick uses yoga and Sanskrit as frameworks to analyse the political ambitions and soft-power dynamics of the Indian state, as well as the influence of non-state actors in the global wellness tourism industry.