Pradnya Bivalkar is currently working as a Senior Project Manager at the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH in Berlin.

She holds a PhD in the field of Film and Media Studies from the University of Tübingen and has written on identity conflicts in Indian cinema in the light of the socio-political and cultural developments in India in the past 20 years. She held a fellowship to pursue her PhD from the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Pradnya was the Program Director of the Media Ambassadors India–Germany Program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences/ University of Tübingen.

She has also appeared as an expert on Indian affairs in a variety of German publications.