Experience

Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict

• India
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President Public Policy

  • Apr 2007 - Present

  New Delhi, Delhi, India As the head of research and policy division, my primary task is to conduct and guide research on a variety of subjects that SSPC undertakes from time to time. My own areas of expertize (military and strategic affairs) apart, I supervise and oversee different research products of the organization. Being a public policy professional, I strive to make a balanced approach to multi-disciplinary research at SSPC by scholars. I also represent SSPC at various events in India and abroad. Also undertake… Show more As the head of research and policy division, my primary task is to conduct and guide research on a variety of subjects that SSPC undertakes from time to time. My own areas of expertize (military and strategic affairs) apart, I supervise and oversee different research products of the organization. Being a public policy professional, I strive to make a balanced approach to multi-disciplinary research at SSPC by scholars. I also represent SSPC at various events in India and abroad. Also undertake risk assessment and due diligence assignments from clients across geographies. Show less



NFG Research Group at the Freie University, Berlin

• Visiting Fellow

  • May 2012 - Jul 2012

  Berlin NFG Group is a part of the Department of Social and Political Science, Freie University, Berlin. It disseminates knowledge on perceptions between three major powers - EU, China and India and tries to make bridges between Europe and emerging powers like China and India. I, as the first Visiting Fellow, am currently engaged in a research paper titled "Not a Bad Actor: India and Export Controls Regimes", which will be published by December 2013.



Observer Research Foundation

• India
• Think Tanks
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Fellow

  • May 2006 - Mar 2012

  New Delhi At ORF, I worked on Indian national security, including defense industry, arms expenditure and trade, higher defense management, defense procurement and homeland security.



European Union Institute for Security Studies

• Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2009

  Paris I was a Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, from September to December 2009. My research focused on Indian defence industry dynamics. During the fellowship tenure, I lectured at several institutions on Indian defence and security policy.



Salzburg Global Seminar

• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fellow

  • Sep 2008 - Sep 2008

  I attended a global fellowship programme at the Salzburg global seminar for a week, in which I participated in a week long deliberations on the Sino-Indian relations. I made many friends during the course who have become buddies over the last coupel of years.


Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
• Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Nov 2005 - Mar 2006


Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

• India
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Research Fellow

  • Aug 1997 - Apr 2005

  Carried out research projects on global defence industry, china's military modernisation.


BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion)
• Visiting Fellow

  • Sep 2002 - Mar 2003


Department of War Studies

• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• British Chevening Visiting Fellow

  • Oct 1995 - Sep 1996

  King's College London