Michael Kugelman

Deputy Director, Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on the region. His areas of interest are Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan and U.S. relations with each of them. Kugelman writes monthly columns for Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and monthly commentaries for War on the Rocks. He also contributes regular pieces to the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank blog.

Gurpreet Singh Khurana

Missile warfare specialist of the Indian Navy, and an academic of international acclaim. He was Research Follow at India’s premier think-tank, Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA); and later, Executive Director of the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), New Delhi. He has authored three books and many research papers on naval, strategic, maritime law and geopolitical issues, relating to India, China and the other major powers in the Indo-Pacific region.

Nilanthi Samaranayake

Director of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)’s Strategy and Policy Analysis Program. She leads a team of analysts who conduct multidisciplinary research and analysis for civilian and military leaders on maritime strategy, nuclear policy, alliance management, Arctic strategy and policy, and non-traditional security. She provides analytic support to civilian and military leaders on US alliances and strategic partnerships, contested sovereignty and US basing rights.

Dr. Fr. Joseph C. C. (@ChristBangalore) is the Pro-Vice Chancellor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) and Professor at the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History at CHRIST (Deemed to be University). He has a Ph.D. in History from Pondicherry University.

Deepa M. Ollapally (@DeepaOllapally) is Director of the Rising Powers Initiative and Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She is a political scientist specializing in Indian foreign policy, India- China relations, and Indo- Pacific regional and maritime security.

N. Manoharan (@ChristBangalore) is Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies and Associate Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University). Earlier he served at the National Security Council Secretariat and Ministry of Defence. He was also a South Asia Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington.

Madhumati Deshpande (@ChristBangalore) is an Assistant Professor & Coordinator of the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore. She completed her MPhil and PhD from JNU, New Delhi.